φύλαξις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φῠλᾰ́σσω (phulássō, “to guard”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰý.lak.sis/ → /ˈɸy.lak.sis/ → /ˈfi.lak.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰý.lak.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.lak.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸy.lak.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfy.lak.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lak.sis/

Noun

φῠ́λᾰξῐς • (phúlaxis) f (genitive φῠλᾰ́ξεως); third declension

1. an act of watching, guarding
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 379.6
2. a security
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 506

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ φῠ́λᾰξῐς; τῆς φῠλᾰ́ξεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῠ́λᾰξῐς hē phúlaxis	τὼ φῠλᾰ́ξει tṑ phuláxei	αἱ φῠλᾰ́ξεις hai phuláxeis
Genitive	τῆς φῠλᾰ́ξεως tês phuláxeōs	τοῖν φῠλᾰξέοιν toîn phulaxéoin	τῶν φῠλᾰ́ξεων tôn phuláxeōn
Dative	τῇ φῠλᾰ́ξει têi phuláxei	τοῖν φῠλᾰξέοιν toîn phulaxéoin	ταῖς φῠλᾰ́ξεσῐ / φῠλᾰ́ξεσῐν taîs phuláxesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν φῠ́λᾰξῐν tḕn phúlaxin	τὼ φῠλᾰ́ξει tṑ phuláxei	τᾱ̀ς φῠλᾰ́ξεις tā̀s phuláxeis
Vocative	φῠ́λᾰξῐ phúlaxi	φῠλᾰ́ξει phuláxei	φῠλᾰ́ξεις phuláxeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: phylaxis
• Greek: φύλαξη (fýlaxi)

References

• “φύλαξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φύλαξις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φύλαξις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette