φαλλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. The meaning "penis" likely developed from a more concrete meaning, and has been compared to βαλλία (ballía, “private parts”) and the ethnonym Τριβαλλοί (Triballoí). Possible Indo-European cognates are Old Irish ball (“member, body part”) as well as dialectal German Bille (“penis”), all usually compared to words for "ball, sack, bull, testis" and similar, supposedly deriving from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell”). Probably akin to φάλλαινα (phállaina, “whale”), because of the body shape of whale. Probably related to Albanian pallë (id.)

Pronunciation
 

Noun

φαλλός • (phallós) m (genitive φαλλοῦ); second declension

  1. penis
  2. an image of a penis, phallus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ φαλλός; τοῦ φαλλοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ φαλλός
ho phallós		 τὼ φαλλώ
tṑ phallṓ		 οἱ φαλλοί
hoi phalloí
Genitive τοῦ φαλλοῦ
toû phalloû		 τοῖν φαλλοῖν
toîn phalloîn		 τῶν φαλλῶν
tôn phallôn
Dative τῷ φαλλῷ
tôi phallôi		 τοῖν φαλλοῖν
toîn phalloîn		 τοῖς φαλλοῖς
toîs phalloîs
Accusative τὸν φαλλόν
tòn phallón		 τὼ φαλλώ
tṑ phallṓ		 τοὺς φαλλούς
toùs phalloús
Vocative φαλλέ
phallé		 φαλλώ
phallṓ		 φαλλοί
phalloí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Old Armenian: փաղղոս (pʿałłos)

References

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [faˈlɔs]

Noun

φαλλός • (fallós) m (plural φαλλοί)

  1. (anatomy) phallus

Declension
declension of φαλλός
singular plural
nominative φαλλός • φαλλοί •
genitive φαλλού • φαλλών •
accusative φαλλό • φαλλούς •
vocative φαλλέ • φαλλοί •

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