Φοῖβος

See also: φοῖβος and Φοίβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φοῖβος (phoîbos, “pure, bright, radiant”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoigʷ-o-, from *bʰeigʷ- (“to shine, clear”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰôi̯.bos/ → /ˈɸy.βos/ → /ˈfi.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰôi̯.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸy.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfy.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.vos/

Proper noun

Φοῖβος • (Phoîbos) m (genitive Φοίβου); second declension

1. Phoebus
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.43

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Φοῖβος; τοῦ Φοίβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φοῖβος ho Phoîbos
Genitive	τοῦ Φοίβου toû Phoíbou
Dative	τῷ Φοίβῳ tôi Phoíbōi
Accusative	τὸν Φοῖβον tòn Phoîbon
Vocative	Φοῖβε Phoîbe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Φοίβη (Phoíbē)
• Φοιβίδας (Phoibídas)

Descendants

• Greek: Φοίβος (Foívos)
• → Latin: Phoebus, Fuibus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
  • → Middle English: Phebus, Febus
    • English: Phoebus
  • → French: Phébus, Phœbus
  • → Russian: Феб (Feb)

Further reading

• “Φοῖβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Φοῖβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022