φύλλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃-yom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“leaf, blossom, flower”). Cognates include Latin folium, Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ), and English blossom.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰýl.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰyl.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸyl.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfyl.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.lon/
Noun
φῠ́λλον • (phŭ́llon) n (genitive φῠ́λλου); second declension
- leaf
- (in the plural) foliage
- plant
- (poetic phrase, φύλλον ἐλαίας (phúllon elaías)) olive tree
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701:
- Χορός […] ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας- Khorós […] hò tāîde thállei mégista khṓrāi,
glaukâs paidotróphou phúllon elaías - Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree
- Khorós […] hò tāîde thállei mégista khṓrāi,
- Χορός […] ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ φῠ́λλον tò phŭ́llon |
τὼ φῠ́λλω tṑ phŭ́llō |
τᾰ̀ φῠ́λλᾰ tằ phŭ́llă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φῠ́λλου toû phŭ́llou |
τοῖν φῠ́λλοιν toîn phŭ́lloin |
τῶν φῠ́λλων tôn phŭ́llōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φῠ́λλῳ tōî phŭ́llōi |
τοῖν φῠ́λλοιν toîn phŭ́lloin |
τοῖς φῠ́λλοις toîs phŭ́llois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ φῠ́λλον tò phŭ́llon |
τὼ φῠ́λλω tṑ phŭ́llō |
τᾰ̀ φῠ́λλᾰ tằ phŭ́llă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῠ́λλον phŭ́llon |
φῠ́λλω phŭ́llō |
φῠ́λλᾰ phŭ́llă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀγρῐόφῠλλον (agrĭóphŭllon)
- ἐλαιόφυλλον (elaióphullon)
- κᾰρῠόφῠλλον (kărŭóphŭllon)
- κῐσσόφῠλλον (kĭssóphŭllon)
- κιτρόφυλλον (kitróphullon)
- μελισσόφυλλον (melissóphullon)
- σῡκόφῠλλον (sūkóphŭllon)
- τρῐ́φῠλλος (trĭ́phŭllos)
- ὑδνόφῠλλον (hudnóphŭllon)
- φύλλινος (phúllinos)
- φύλλιον (phúllion)
- φῠλλῐ́ς (phŭllĭ́s)
- φυλλῖτις (phullîtis)
Descendants
- → English: -phyllous, phyllon, -phyll, phyllo-, -phyllic, -phylline
- Greek: φύλλο (fýllo)
- Mariupol Greek: фи́лу (fílu)
- Translingual: phylla, phyllus, -phyllum
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φύλλον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1596-7
Further reading
- “φύλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φύλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φύλλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φύλλον 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
- φύλλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φύλλον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5444 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.