φάλος
See also: φαλός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Contested. Furnée adduces βαλόν (balón, “sky”); if the identification is correct, the word may be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰá.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰa.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸa.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfa.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.los/
Noun
φᾰ́λος • (phắlos) m (genitive φᾰ́λου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ φᾰ́λος ho phắlos |
τὼ φᾰ́λω tṑ phắlō |
οἱ φᾰ́λοι hoi phắloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φᾰ́λου toû phắlou |
τοῖν φᾰ́λοιν toîn phắloin |
τῶν φᾰ́λων tôn phắlōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φᾰ́λῳ tōî phắlōi |
τοῖν φᾰ́λοιν toîn phắloin |
τοῖς φᾰ́λοις toîs phắlois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν φᾰ́λον tòn phắlon |
τὼ φᾰ́λω tṑ phắlō |
τοὺς φᾰ́λους toùs phắlous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φᾰ́λε phắle |
φᾰ́λω phắlō |
φᾰ́λοι phắloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “φάλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φάλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN