φιλυρέα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φῐλῠρρέα (phĭlŭrrhéa)

Etymology

From φῐλῠ́ρα (phĭlŭ́ra, “lime tree, linden”) +‎ -έᾱ (-éā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.ly.ré.aː/ → /ɸi.lyˈre.a/ → /fi.liˈre.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.ly.ré.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lyˈre.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸi.lyˈre.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fi.lyˈre.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.liˈre.a/

Noun

φῐλῠρέᾱ • (phĭlŭréā) f (genitive φῐλῠρέᾱς); first declension

1. mock privet (Phillyrea latifolia)

Declension

First declension of ἡ φῐλῠρέᾱ; τῆς φῐλῠρέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῐλῠρέᾱ hē phĭlŭréā	τὼ φῐλῠρέᾱ tṑ phĭlŭréā	αἱ φῐλῠρέαι hai phĭlŭréai
Genitive	τῆς φῐλῠρέᾱς tês phĭlŭréās	τοῖν φῐλῠρέαιν toîn phĭlŭréain	τῶν φῐλῠρεῶν tôn phĭlŭreôn
Dative	τῇ φῐλῠρέᾳ tēî phĭlŭréāi	τοῖν φῐλῠρέαιν toîn phĭlŭréain	ταῖς φῐλῠρέαις taîs phĭlŭréais
Accusative	τὴν φῐλῠρέᾱν tḕn phĭlŭréān	τὼ φῐλῠρέᾱ tṑ phĭlŭréā	τᾱ̀ς φῐλῠρέᾱς tā̀s phĭlŭréās
Vocative	φῐλῠρέᾱ phĭlŭréā	φῐλῠρέᾱ phĭlŭréā	φῐλῠρέαι phĭlŭréai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Phillyrea

Further reading

• “φιλυρέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φιλυρέα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette