φλέδων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with φλήναφος (phlḗnaphos, “babbler; idle talk”) proves a Pre-Greek etymology, in view of the nasalization.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰlé.dɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰle.don/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸle.ðon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfle.ðon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfle.ðon/
Noun
φλέδων • (phlédōn) m or f (genitive φλέδονος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ φλέδων ho, hē phlédōn |
τὼ φλέδονε tṑ phlédone |
οἱ, αἱ φλέδονες hoi, hai phlédones | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς φλέδονος toû, tês phlédonos |
τοῖν φλεδόνοιν toîn phledónoin |
τῶν φλεδόνων tôn phledónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ φλέδονῐ tōî, tēî phlédonĭ |
τοῖν φλεδόνοιν toîn phledónoin |
τοῖς, ταῖς φλέδοσῐ / φλέδοσῐν toîs, taîs phlédosĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν φλέδονᾰ tòn, tḕn phlédonă |
τὼ φλέδονε tṑ phlédone |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς φλέδονᾰς toùs, tā̀s phlédonăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φλέδον phlédon |
φλέδονε phlédone |
φλέδονες phlédones | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φλεδονεία (phledoneía)
- φλεδονεύομαι (phledoneúomai)
- φλεδονέω (phledonéō)
- φλεδονώδης (phledonṓdēs)
- φλεδών (phledṓn)
Further reading
- “φλέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φλέδων 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