Φιλομήλη

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From φίλος (phílos, love) + μῆλον (mêlon, apple; fruit; sheep), but folk-etymologized since at least the time of Ovid as + μέλος (mélos, song).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Φῐλομήλη (Philomḗlēf (genitive Φῐλομήλης); first declension

  1. a female given name: Philomela, particularly the sister of Procne who was raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus
  2. (literary zoology, originally) The swallow.
  3. (literary zoology, later) The nightingale.

Inflection

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021