φῦλον

See also: φύλλον and φύλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A variant of φῡλή (phūlḗ, “tribe”), itself related to φύω (phúō, “to beget”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰŷː.lon/ → /ˈɸy.lon/ → /ˈfi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰŷː.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰy.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lon/

Noun

φῦλον • (phûlon) n (genitive φῡ́λου); second declension

1. a set of people or other beings

   φῦλον θεῶν, φῦλον ἀοιδῶν, φῦλον ὀρνίθων

   phûlon theôn, phûlon aoidôn, phûlon orníthōn

   a race of gods, a race of singers, a race of birds

2. sex (male/female)
3. nation, race, tribe

Declension

Second declension of τὸ φῦλον; τοῦ φῡ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φῦλον tò phûlon	τὼ φῡ́λω tṑ phū́lō	τᾰ̀ φῦλᾰ tằ phûlă
Genitive	τοῦ φῡ́λου toû phū́lou	τοῖν φῡ́λοιν toîn phū́loin	τῶν φῡ́λων tôn phū́lōn
Dative	τῷ φῡ́λῳ tōî phū́lōi	τοῖν φῡ́λοιν toîn phū́loin	τοῖς φῡ́λοις toîs phū́lois
Accusative	τὸ φῦλον tò phûlon	τὼ φῡ́λω tṑ phū́lō	τᾰ̀ φῦλᾰ tằ phûlă
Vocative	φῦλον phûlon	φῡ́λω phū́lō	φῦλᾰ phûlă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὁμόφῡλος (omófylos)

Descendants

• Greek: φύλο (fýlo)
• → English: phylum
• → Latin: phȳlon
  • → English: phylon
  • → German: Phylon

Further reading

• “φῦλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φῦλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φῦλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φῦλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• φῦλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “φῦλον”, 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.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • folk idem, page 332.
  • nation idem, page 551.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • sex idem, page 759.
  • tribe idem, page 894.
• φῦλον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011