Φείδων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φείδων (pheídōn, “oil-can with a narrow neck”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰěː.dɔːn/ → /ˈɸi.ðon/ → /ˈfi.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰěː.dɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰi.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸi.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ðon/

Proper noun

Φείδων • (Pheídōn) m (genitive Φείδωνος); third declension

1. Phidon; Pheido

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Φείδων; τοῦ Φείδωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φείδων ho Pheídōn
Genitive	τοῦ Φείδωνος toû Pheídōnos
Dative	τῷ Φείδωνῐ tôi Pheídōni
Accusative	τὸν Φείδωνᾰ tòn Pheídōna
Vocative	Φείδων Pheídōn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Φειδώνειος (Pheidṓneios)
• Φειδωνῐ́δης (Pheidōnídēs)
• Φειδώνῐος (Pheidṓnios)

Descendants

• Greek: Φείδων (Feídon)
• Latin: Phīdōn, Pheidō

References

• “Φείδων”, 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 1,021
• Φείδων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette