Φιλήμων

See also: φιλήμων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φιλήμων (philḗmōn, “kindly, affectionate”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.lɛ̌ː.mɔːn/ → /ɸiˈli.mon/ → /fiˈli.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lɛ̌ː.mɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰiˈle̝.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈli.mon/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.mon/

Proper noun

Φῐλήμων • (Phĭlḗmōn) m (genitive Φῐλήμονος); third declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Philemon

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Φῐλήμων; τοῦ Φῐλήμονος (Attic)

	singular
nominative	ὁ Φῐλήμωνho Phĭlḗmōn
genitive	τοῦ Φῐλήμονοςtoû Phĭlḗmonos
dative	τῷ Φῐλήμονῐtōî Phĭlḗmonĭ
accusative	τὸν Φῐλήμονᾰtòn Phĭlḗmonă
vocative	ΦῐλῆμονPhĭlêmon

• This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Φιλήμων (Filímon)
• Latin: Philēmōn

Further reading

• Strong, James (1979), “G5371”, in 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