φαλλός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φᾰ́λης (phắlēs)

Etymology

Uncertain. The sense “penis” likely developed from a more concrete sense, and has been compared to βαλλῐ́ᾱ (ballĭ́ā, “private parts”) and the ethnonym Τρῐβᾰλλοί (Trĭbălloí). Possible Indo-European cognates are Old Irish ball (“member; body part”) as well as dialectal German Bille (“penis”), all usually compared to words for “ball; sack; bull; testis” and similar, supposedly deriving from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell”); i.e. *bʰl̥nós > *pʰəlnós > *pʰəllós. Probably akin to φάλλαινᾰ (phállaină, “whale”), because of the body shape of whales.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰal.lós/ → /ɸalˈlos/ → /faˈlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰal.lós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰalˈlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸalˈlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /falˈlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faˈlos/

Noun

φᾰλλός • (phăllós) m (genitive φᾰλλοῦ); second declension

1. penis; phallus

   Synonym: βαλλῐ́ον (ballĭ́on)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ φᾰλλός; τοῦ φᾰλλοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φᾰλλός ho phăllós	τὼ φᾰλλώ tṑ phăllṓ	οἱ φᾰλλοί hoi phălloí
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰλλοῦ toû phălloû	τοῖν φᾰλλοῖν toîn phălloîn	τῶν φᾰλλῶν tôn phăllôn
Dative	τῷ φᾰλλῷ tōî phăllōî	τοῖν φᾰλλοῖν toîn phălloîn	τοῖς φᾰλλοῖς toîs phălloîs
Accusative	τὸν φᾰλλόν tòn phăllón	τὼ φᾰλλώ tṑ phăllṓ	τοὺς φᾰλλούς toùs phălloús
Vocative	φᾰλλέ phăllé	φᾰλλώ phăllṓ	φᾰλλοί phălloí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• εἰθῠ́φᾰλλος (eithŭ́phăllos)
• ῑ̓θῠ́φᾰλλος (īthŭ́phăllos)
• πλᾰγῐόφᾰλλος (plăgĭóphăllos)
• Τρῐ́φᾰλλος (Trĭ́phăllos)
• φαλληφόρια (phallēphória)
• φαλλικός (phallikós)
• φαλλοβάτης (phallobátēs)
• φαλλοφόρος (phallophóros)

Descendants

• → Old Armenian: փաղղոս (pʻałłos)
• → Latin: phallus
  • Asturian: falu
  • Catalan: fal·lus
  • → Czech: falus
  • → Dutch: fallus
  • → English: phallus
  • → French: (unadapted borrowing) phallus
  • Galician: falo
  • → German: Phallus
  • Italian: fallo
  • Middle French: phalle
    • French: phalle
  • → Occitan: fallus
  • → Polish: fallus
  • → Portuguese: falo
  • Romanian: falus (possibly via French)
  • → Russian: фа́ллус (fállus), фалл (fall)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: falus, фалус
  • Sicilian: fallu
  • Spanish: falo
  • → Turkish: fallus
• Greek: φαλλός (fallós)
• → Danish: fallos
• → Estonian: fallos
• → Finnish: fallos
• → Norwegian: fallos
• → Russian: фа́ллос (fállos)
• → Swedish: fallos
• →? Albanian: pallë

References

• “φαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φαλλός” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1550

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈlɔs]

Noun

φαλλός • (fallós) m (plural φαλλοί)

1. (anatomy) phallus

Declension

Declension of φαλλός

	singular	plural
nominative	φαλλός (fallós)	φαλλοί (falloí)
genitive	φαλλού (falloú)	φαλλών (fallón)
accusative	φαλλό (falló)	φαλλούς (falloús)
vocative	φαλλέ (fallé)	φαλλοί (falloí)

Synonyms

• πέος (péos)

Derived terms

• φαλλικός (fallikós)

Further reading

• φαλλός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el