Φιλήμων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φιλήμων (philḗmōn, “kindly, affectionate”), from φιλέω (philéō, “I 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 Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.mon/

Proper noun

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

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Philemon

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Φῐλήμων; τοῦ Φῐλήμονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φῐλήμων ho Philḗmōn
Genitive	τοῦ Φῐλήμονος toû Philḗmonos
Dative	τῷ Φῐλήμονῐ tôi Philḗmoni
Accusative	τὸν Φῐλήμονᾰ tòn Philḗmona
Vocative	Φῐλῆμον Philêmon
Notes:	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

• G5371 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