φῦλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φύω (phúō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰŷː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰy.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸy.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfy.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.lon/
Noun
φῦλον • (phûlon) n (genitive φῡ́λου); second declension
- a set of people or other beings
- φῦλον θεῶν, φῦλον ἀοιδῶν, φῦλον ὀρνίθων
- phûlon theôn, phûlon aoidôn, phûlon orníthōn
- a race of gods, a race of singers, a race of birds
- sex (male/female)
- nation, race, tribe
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ φῦλον tò phûlon |
τὼ φῡ́λω tṑ phū́lō |
τᾰ̀ φῦλᾰ tằ phûlă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φῡ́λου toû phū́lou |
τοῖν φῡ́λοιν toîn phū́loin |
τῶν φῡ́λων tôn phū́lōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φῡ́λῳ tōî phū́lōi |
τοῖν φῡ́λοιν toîn phū́loin |
τοῖς φῡ́λοις toîs phū́lois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ φῦλον tò phûlon |
τὼ φῡ́λω tṑ phū́lō |
τᾰ̀ φῦλᾰ tằ phûlă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῦλον phûlon |
φῡ́λω phū́lō |
φῦλᾰ phûlă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “φῦλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φῦλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φῦλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φῦλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φῦλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φῦλον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.