φλέδων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with φλήναφος (phlḗnaphos, “babbler; idle talk”) proves a Pre-Greek etymology, in view of the nasalization.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰlé.dɔːn/ → /ˈɸle.ðon/ → /ˈfle.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰlé.dɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰle.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸle.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfle.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfle.ðon/

Noun

φλέδων • (phlédōn) m or f (genitive φλέδονος); third declension

1. idle talker, babbler, chatterer

   Synonym: φλήνᾰφος (phlḗnaphos)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ φλέδων; τοῦ, τῆς φλέδονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ φλέδων ho, hē phlédōn	τὼ φλέδονε tṑ phlédone	οἱ, αἱ φλέδονες hoi, hai phlédones
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς φλέδονος toû, tês phlédonos	τοῖν φλεδόνοιν toîn phledónoin	τῶν φλεδόνων tôn phledónōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ φλέδονῐ tôi, têi phlédoni	τοῖν φλεδόνοιν toîn phledónoin	τοῖς, ταῖς φλέδοσῐ / φλέδοσῐν toîs, taîs phlédosi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν φλέδονᾰ tòn, tḕn phlédona	τὼ φλέδονε tṑ phlédone	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς φλέδονᾰς toùs, tā̀s phlédonas
Vocative	φλέδον phlédon	φλέδονε phlédone	φλέδονες phlédones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φλεδονεία (phledoneía)
• φλεδονεύομαι (phledoneúomai)
• φλεδονέω (phledonéō)
• φλεδονώδης (phledonṓdēs)
• φλεδών (phledṓn)

 

Further reading

• “φλέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φλέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φλέδων 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), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN