Delphi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δελφοί (Delphoí).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlfi/, [ˈdɛɫfi]

  Rhymes: -ɛlfi

Proper noun

Delphi

1. A city of ancient Greece, the site of the Delphic oracle
2. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek, as well a diminutive of Delphine.
3. A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Indiana, United States.
4. A programming language dialect based on Pascal.
5. A method for obtaining consensus from a group of experts; see Delphi method in Wikipedia.

Translations

city of ancient Greece

• Armenian: Դելփիք (hy) (Delpʻikʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德爾斐／德尔斐 (Dé'ěrfěi)

• Czech: Delfy f pl
• Dutch: Delfi n
• Finnish: Delfoi
• French: Delphes (fr)
• Georgian: დელფო (delpo)
• German: Delphi n
• Greek: Δελφοί (el) (Delfoí)

  Ancient: Δελφοί pl (Delphoí)

• Hebrew: דלפי (délfi)
• Hindi: डेल्फी (ḍelphī)
• Irish: Deilfe f
• Italian: Delfi (it) f
• Persian: دلفی (fa) (delfi)
• Polish: Delfy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: Delfos
• Russian: Де́льфы (ru) pl (Délʹfy)
• Spanish: Delfos (es)
• Turkish: Delfi

programming language

• Georgian: დელფი (delpi)
• Persian: دلفی (fa) (delfi)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δελφοί (Delphoí, “Delphi”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdel.pʰiː/, [ˈd̪ɛɫ̪pʰiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdel.fi/, [ˈd̪ɛlfi]

Proper noun

Delphī m pl (genitive Delphōrum); second declension

1. Delphi (a city, oracle in Greece)

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Delphī
Genitive	Delphōrum
Dative	Delphīs
Accusative	Delphōs
Ablative	Delphīs
Vocative	Delphī
Locative	Delphīs

Descendants

• Italian: Delfi

References

• “Delphi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Delphi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Delphi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.