φιλύκη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Perhaps a Pre-Greek word related to φιλύρα (philúra, “lime tree”) and φυλία (phulía, “wild olive tree”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰi.lý.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰiˈly.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸiˈly.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fiˈly.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈli.ci/
Noun
φῐλῠ́κη • (phĭlŭ́kē) f (genitive φῐλῠ́κης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ φῐλῠ́κη hē phĭlŭ́kē |
τὼ φῐλῠ́κᾱ tṑ phĭlŭ́kā |
αἱ φῐλῠ́και hai phĭlŭ́kai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς φῐλῠ́κης tês phĭlŭ́kēs |
τοῖν φῐλῠ́καιν toîn phĭlŭ́kain |
τῶν φῐλῠκῶν tôn phĭlŭkôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ φῐλῠ́κῃ tēî phĭlŭ́kēi |
τοῖν φῐλῠ́καιν toîn phĭlŭ́kain |
ταῖς φῐλῠ́καις taîs phĭlŭ́kais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν φῐλῠ́κην tḕn phĭlŭ́kēn |
τὼ φῐλῠ́κᾱ tṑ phĭlŭ́kā |
τᾱ̀ς φῐλῠ́κᾱς tā̀s phĭlŭ́kās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῐλῠ́κη phĭlŭ́kē |
φῐλῠ́κᾱ phĭlŭ́kā |
φῐλῠ́και phĭlŭ́kai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Phylica
Further reading
- “φιλύκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φιλύκη 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