φύλλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognates include Latin folium, Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ), and English blossom.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰýl.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰyl.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸyl.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfyl.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.lon/
Noun
φῠ́λλον • (phúllon) n (genitive φῠ́λλου); second declension
- leaf
- (in the plural) foliage
- plant
- (poetic phrase, φύλλον ἐλαίας) olive tree
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701:
- Χορός […] ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας- Khorós […] hò tâide thállei mégista khṓrāi,
glaukâs paidotróphou phúllon elaías - Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree
- Khorós […] hò tâide thállei mégista khṓrāi,
- Χορός […] ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ φῠ́λλον tò phúllon |
τὼ φῠ́λλω tṑ phúllō |
τᾰ̀ φῠ́λλᾰ tà phúlla | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φῠ́λλου toû phúllou |
τοῖν φῠ́λλοιν toîn phúlloin |
τῶν φῠ́λλων tôn phúllōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φῠ́λλῳ tôi phúllōi |
τοῖν φῠ́λλοιν toîn phúlloin |
τοῖς φῠ́λλοις toîs phúllois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ φῠ́λλον tò phúllon |
τὼ φῠ́λλω tṑ phúllō |
τᾰ̀ φῠ́λλᾰ tà phúlla | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῠ́λλον phúllon |
φῠ́λλω phúllō |
φῠ́λλᾰ phúlla | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φύλλινος (phúllinos)
Descendants
- English: -phyllous, phyllon (uncommon)
References
- φύλλον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φύλλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φύλλον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φύλλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- φύλλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- φύλλον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5444 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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