φυλή

See also: Φυλή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φύω (phúō, “to bring forth”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰyː.lɛ̌ː/ → /ɸyˈli/ → /fiˈli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰyː.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰyˈle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸyˈli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fyˈli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈli/

Noun

φῡλή • (phūlḗ) f (genitive φῡλῆς); first declension

1. A union of individuals into a community
2. A union based on descent: tribe, clan
3. A union based on location: county
4. A division of soldiers

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῡλή; τῆς φῡλῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῡλή hē phūlḗ	τὼ φῡλᾱ́ tṑ phūlā́	αἱ φῡλαί hai phūlaí
Genitive	τῆς φῡλῆς tês phūlês	τοῖν φῡλαῖν toîn phūlaîn	τῶν φῡλῶν tôn phūlôn
Dative	τῇ φῡλῇ têi phūlêi	τοῖν φῡλαῖν toîn phūlaîn	ταῖς φῡλαῖς taîs phūlaîs
Accusative	τὴν φῡλήν tḕn phūlḗn	τὼ φῡλᾱ́ tṑ phūlā́	τᾱ̀ς φῡλᾱ́ς tā̀s phūlā́s
Vocative	φῡλή phūlḗ	φῡλᾱ́ phūlā́	φῡλαί phūlaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἐριφύλη (Eriphúlē)
• Κλεοφύλη (Kleophúlē)
• Κρεώφυλος (Kreṓphulos)
• Φυλομάχην (Phulomákhēn)
• Φῡλή (Phūlḗ)
• φῡ́λοπῐς (phū́lopis)

 

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲫⲩⲗⲏ (phulē)
• → English: phyle
• Greek: φυλή (fylí)

Further reading

• “φυλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φυλή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φυλή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • clan idem, page 134.
  • phyle idem, page 610.
  • tribe idem, page 894.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φυλή (phulḗ).

Noun

φυλή • (fylí) f (plural φυλές)

1. race, tribe, nation, breed

Declension

Declension of φυλή

	singular	plural
nominative	φυλή •	φυλές •
genitive	φυλής •	φυλών •
accusative	φυλή •	φυλές •
vocative	φυλή •	φυλές •

Related terms

• φυλετισμός m (fyletismós, “racism”)
• φυλετικός (fyletikós, “racial”)

See also

• συνομοταξία f (synomotaxía, “phylum”)