φυλή
See also: Φυλή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φύω (phúō, “to bring forth”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰyː.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰyˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸyˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fyˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈli/
Noun
φῡλή • (phūlḗ) f (genitive φῡλῆς); first declension
- A union of individuals into a community
- A union based on descent: tribe, clan
- A union based on location: county
- A division of soldiers
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ φῡλή hē phūlḗ |
τὼ φῡλᾱ́ tṑ phūlā́ |
αἱ φῡλαί hai phūlaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς φῡλῆς tês phūlês |
τοῖν φῡλαῖν toîn phūlaîn |
τῶν φῡλῶν tôn phūlôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ φῡλῇ tēî phūlēî |
τοῖν φῡλαῖν toîn phūlaîn |
ταῖς φῡλαῖς taîs phūlaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν φῡλήν tḕn phūlḗn |
τὼ φῡλᾱ́ tṑ phūlā́ |
τᾱ̀ς φῡλᾱ́ς tā̀s phūlā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῡλή phūlḗ |
φῡλᾱ́ phūlā́ |
φῡλαί phūlaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “φυλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φυλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φυλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φυλή (phulḗ).
Noun
φυλή • (fylí) f (plural φυλές)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | φυλή (fylí) | φυλές (fylés) |
| genitive | φυλής (fylís) | φυλών (fylón) |
| accusative | φυλή (fylí) | φυλές (fylés) |
| vocative | φυλή (fylí) | φυλές (fylés) |
Related terms
- φυλετισμός m (fyletismós, “racism”)
- φυλετικός (fyletikós, “racial”)
See also
- συνομοταξία f (synomotaxía, “phylum”)
Further reading
- φυλή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el