Phyllius

Latin

Etymology

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Proper noun

Phyllius m sg (genitive Phylliī or Phyllī); second declension

  1. a Bœotian who was in love with Cygnus
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ovid to this entry?)

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Phyllius
genitive Phylliī
Phyllī1
dative Phylliō
accusative Phyllium
ablative Phylliō
vocative Phyllī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “Phyllĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Phyllĭus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,178/2.
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