Πολύφημος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολῠ- (polu-) +‎ φήμη (phḗmē) +‎ -ος (-os), literally “many-voiced”, “much spoken of”, or “abounding in songs and legends”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.lý.pʰɛː.mos/ → /poˈly.ɸi.mos/ → /poˈli.fi.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.lý.pʰɛː.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /poˈly.pʰe̝.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /poˈly.ɸi.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /poˈly.fi.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /poˈli.fi.mos/

Proper noun

Πολῠ́φημος • (Polúphēmos) m (genitive Πολῠφήμου); second declension

1. a male given name: Polyphemus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πολῠ́φημος; τοῦ Πολῠφήμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πολῠ́φημος ho Polúphēmos
Genitive	τοῦ Πολῠφήμου toû Poluphḗmou
Dative	τῷ Πολῠφήμῳ tôi Poluphḗmōi
Accusative	τὸν Πολῠ́φημον tòn Polúphēmon
Vocative	Πολῠ́φημε Polúphēme
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πολύφημος (Polýfimos)
• Latin: Polyphēmus, Polyphēmos
  • → English: Polyphemus
  • → French: Polyphème
  • → Italian: Polifemo
  • → Sicilian: Pulifimu

Further reading

• “Πολύφημος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023