Φίλιππος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλιππος (phílippos, “fond of horses”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”) +‎ ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰí.lip.pos/ → /ˈɸi.lip.pos/ → /ˈfi.li.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰí.lip.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰi.lip.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸi.lip.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lip.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li.pos/

Proper noun

Φῐ́λῐππος • (Phílippos) m (genitive Φῐλῐ́ππου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Philip

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Φῐ́λῐππος; τοῦ Φῐλῐ́ππου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φῐ́λῐππος ho Phílippos
Genitive	τοῦ Φῐλῐ́ππου toû Philíppou
Dative	τῷ Φῐλῐ́ππῳ tôi Philíppōi
Accusative	τὸν Φῐ́λῐππον tòn Phílippon
Vocative	Φῐ́λῐππε Phílippe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Φίλιπποι (Phílippoi)
• Φιλιππίζω (Philippízō)
• Φιλιππικός (Philippikós)
• Φιλίππιον (Philíppion)

Descendants

• Arabic: فيليبوس (Fīlībūs)
• Armenian: Փիլիպպոս (Pʻilippos)
• Breton: Fulup
• Bulgarian: Филип (Filip)
• Catalan: Felip
• Czech: Filip
• Danish: Philip
• Dutch: Filip, Philippus
• Egyptian: prwpwysꜣ
• Estonian: Philippos
• Finnish: Filippus, Filippos
• French: Philippe
• West Frisian: Filippus
• Galician: Filipo
• German: Philipp
• Greek: Φίλιππος (Fílippos)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌹𐍀𐍀𐌿𐍃 (filippus)
• Hebrew: פיליפוס (Filippos)
• Hungarian: Fülöp
• Irish: Pilip
• Italian: Filippo

• Japanese: フィリポ (Firipo), ピリッポス (Piripposu), フィリップ (Firippu)
• Latin: Philippus
• Latvian: Filips
• Lithuanian: Pilypas
• Macedonian: Филип (Filip)
• Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭥𐭩𐭯𐭥𐭮 (Firipōs)
• Norwegian: Filip
• Parthian: 𐭐𐭋𐭉𐭐𐭅𐭎 (Filipōs)
• Persian: فیلیپ (filip)
• Polish: Filip
• Portuguese: Filipe
• Russian: Филипп (Filipp)
• Serbo-Croatian: Филип, Filip
• Slovak: Filip
• Slovene: Filip
• Spanish: Felipe, Filipo
• Swedish: Filip
• Turkish: Filip
• Ukrainian: Філіпп (Filipp), Пилип (Pylyp)
• Venetan: Fiłipo
• Welsh: Philip

Further reading

• 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
• G5376 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• “φίλιππος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φίλιππος.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li.pos/

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• Hyphenation: Φί‧λιπ‧πος

Proper noun

Φίλιππος • (Fílippos) m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Philip
2. (in the plural) see Φίλιπποι (Fílippoi, “Philippi”) (placename)

Declension

Declension of Φίλιππος

	singular	plural
nominative	Φίλιππος •	Φίλιπποι •
genitive	Φιλίππου •	Φιλίππων •
accusative	Φίλιππο •	Φιλίππους •
vocative	Φίλιππε •	Φίλιπποι •
Genitive singular, also the less formal Φίλιππου.