μιλφός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The etymology is not clear, but Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

μῐλφός • (milphós) m (genitive μῐλφοῦ); second declension

1. one who suffers from the falling of the eyelashes

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῐλφός; τοῦ μῐλφοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῐλφός ho milphós	τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ milphṓ	οἱ μῐλφοί hoi milphoí
Genitive	τοῦ μῐλφοῦ toû milphoû	τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn milphoîn	τῶν μῐλφῶν tôn milphôn
Dative	τῷ μῐλφῷ tôi milphôi	τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn milphoîn	τοῖς μῐλφοῖς toîs milphoîs
Accusative	τὸν μῐλφόν tòn milphón	τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ milphṓ	τοὺς μῐλφούς toùs milphoús
Vocative	μῐλφέ milphé	μῐλφώ milphṓ	μῐλφοί milphoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῐ́λφωσῐς (mílphōsis)

Further reading

• “μιλφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μίλφοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 952