Φοῖβος

See also: φοῖβος and Φοίβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φοῖβος (phoîbos, “pure, bright, radiant”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φοῖβος • (Phoîbos) m (genitive Φοίβου); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Phoebus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Φοῖβος; τοῦ Φοίβου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Φοῖβος
ho Phoîbos
Genitive τοῦ Φοίβου
toû Phoíbou
Dative τῷ Φοίβῳ
tōî Phoíbōi
Accusative τὸν Φοῖβον
tòn Phoîbon
Vocative Φοῖβε
Phoîbe
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Φοίβος (Foívos)
  • → Latin: Phoebus, Fuibus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
  • Coptic: ⲫⲟⲓⲃⲟⲥ (phoibos)

Further reading

  • “Φοῖβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Φοῖβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022
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