φυτόν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φύω (phúō, “I generate, cause to grow”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰy.tón/ → /ɸyˈton/ → /fiˈton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰy.tón/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰyˈton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸyˈton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fyˈton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈton/

Noun

φῠτόν • (phŭtón) n (genitive φῠτοῦ); second declension

1. plant, tree
2. creature
3. child, descendant

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ φῠτόν; τοῦ φῠτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φῠτόν tò phŭtón	τὼ φῠτώ tṑ phŭtṓ	τᾰ̀ φῠτᾰ́ tằ phŭtắ
Genitive	τοῦ φῠτοῦ toû phŭtoû	τοῖν φῠτοῖν toîn phŭtoîn	τῶν φῠτῶν tôn phŭtôn
Dative	τῷ φῠτῷ tôi phŭtôi	τοῖν φῠτοῖν toîn phŭtoîn	τοῖς φῠτοῖς toîs phŭtoîs
Accusative	τὸ φῠτόν tò phŭtón	τὼ φῠτώ tṑ phŭtṓ	τᾰ̀ φῠτᾰ́ tằ phŭtắ
Vocative	φῠτόν phŭtón	φῠτώ phŭtṓ	φῠτᾰ́ phŭtắ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἡλιόφυτον n (hēlióphuton)
• φυτεύω (phuteúō, verb)/ φῑτύω (phītúō, verb)
  • φίτῡμα n (phítūma)/ φῖτυ n (phîtu)
• φυτάλιος (phutálios, adjective)
• φυτικός (phutikós, adjective)

Related terms

• φυσικός (phusikós)
• φύσις (phúsis)

Descendants

• Greek: φυτό n (fytó)
• → Catalan: -fit
• → English: phyto-, -phyte
• → Irish: -fít
• → Polish: -fit
• → Ottoman Turkish: فدان (fidan)
  • Turkish: fidan, Fidan
  • → Armenian: ֆիդան (fidan), ֆիտան (fitan), Ֆիդան (Fidan), Ֆիդանյան (Fidanyan)
  • → Azerbaijani: fidan, Fidan
  • → Greek: φιντάνι n (fintáni) (reborrowing)

Further reading

• “φυτόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φυτόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φυτόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φυτόν 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
• φυτόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “φυτόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • herb idem, page 397.
  • offspring idem, page 571.
  • plant idem, page 617.
  • progeny idem, page 653.
  • sapling idem, page 734.
  • scion idem, page 740.
  • seedling idem, page 749.
  • thing idem, page 867.
  • tree idem, page 893.
  • vegetable idem, page 945.
  • weed idem, page 972.