Φιλομήλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least the time of Ovid as + μέλος (mélos, “song”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Φῐλομήλη • (Philomḗlē) f (genitive Φῐλομήλης); first declension

  1. A female given name: Philomela, particularly the sister of Procne who was raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus.
  2. (literary zoology, originally) The swallow.
  3. (literary zoology, later) The nightingale.

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Φῐλομήλη; τῆς Φῐλομήλης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Φῐλομήλη
hē Philomḗlē
Genitive τῆς Φῐλομήλης
tês Philomḗlēs
Dative τῇ Φῐλομήλῃ
têi Philomḗlēi
Accusative τὴν Φῐλομήλην
tḕn Philomḗlēn
Vocative Φῐλομήλη
Philomḗlē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
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