φελλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been compared with φολίς (pholís, “scale”) and with Russian о́болонь (óbolonʹ, “sapwood, alburnum”) but Beekes finds this improbable.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰel.lós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰɛlˈlos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸelˈlos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /felˈlos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /feˈlos/

Noun

φελλός • (phellós) m (genitive φελλοῦ); second declension

cork oak (Quercus suber)
cork, especially the corks on a net

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φελλός; τοῦ φελλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φελλός ho phellós	τὼ φελλώ tṑ phellṓ	οἱ φελλοί hoi phelloí
Genitive	τοῦ φελλοῦ toû phelloû	τοῖν φελλοῖν toîn phelloîn	τῶν φελλῶν tôn phellôn
Dative	τῷ φελλῷ tôi phellôi	τοῖν φελλοῖν toîn phelloîn	τοῖς φελλοῖς toîs phelloîs
Accusative	τὸν φελλόν tòn phellón	τὼ φελλώ tṑ phellṓ	τοὺς φελλούς toùs phelloús
Vocative	φελλέ phellé	φελλώ phellṓ	φελλοί phelloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

φέλλινος (phéllinos)
φελλόδρυς (phellódrus)
φελλώδης (phellṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: φελλός (fellós)

References

φελλός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
φελλός 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

Greek

Noun

φελλός • (fellós) m (plural φελλοί)

cork (bark of the cork oak)
cork (bottle stopper)
float (for fishing)
(colloquial, derogatory) simpleton, airhead

Declension

declension of φελλός

	singular	plural
nominative	φελλός •	φελλοί •
genitive	φελλού •	φελλών •
accusative	φελλό •	φελλούς •
vocative	φελλέ •	φελλοί •

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