ἴφυον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée connects this word with τίφυον (típhuon, “squill”). Nevertheless, a Pre-Greek word is probable a priori.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǐː.pʰy.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.pʰy.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.ɸy.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.fy.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.fi.on/
Noun
ῑ̓́φῠον • (ī́phŭon) n (genitive ῑ̓φύου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ῑ̓́φῠον tò ī́phŭon |
τὼ ῑ̓φῠ́ω tṑ īphŭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ῑ̓́φῠᾰ tằ ī́phŭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῑ̓φῠ́ου toû īphŭ́ou |
τοῖν ῑ̓φῠ́οιν toîn īphŭ́oin |
τῶν ῑ̓φῠ́ων tôn īphŭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῑ̓φῠ́ῳ tōî īphŭ́ōi |
τοῖν ῑ̓φῠ́οιν toîn īphŭ́oin |
τοῖς ῑ̓φῠ́οις toîs īphŭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ῑ̓́φῠον tò ī́phŭon |
τὼ ῑ̓φῠ́ω tṑ īphŭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ῑ̓́φῠᾰ tằ ī́phŭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῑ̓́φῠον ī́phŭon |
ῑ̓φῠ́ω īphŭ́ō |
ῑ̓́φῠᾰ ī́phŭă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἴφυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἴφυον 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