ὑδνόφυλλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὕδνον (húdnon, “truffle”) +‎ φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.dnó.pʰyl.lon/ → /yˈðno.ɸyl.lon/ → /iˈðno.fi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.dnó.pʰyl.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈdno.pʰyl.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈðno.ɸyl.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈðno.fyl.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈðno.fi.lon/

Noun

ὑδνόφῠλλον • (hudnóphullon) n (genitive ὑδνοφῠ́λλου); second declension

1. herb said to grow over truffles and mark the spot where they are

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὑδνόφῠλλον; τοῦ ὑδνοφῠ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὑδνόφῠλλον tò hudnóphullon	τὼ ὑδνοφῠ́λλω tṑ hudnophúllō	τᾰ̀ ὑδνόφῠλλᾰ tà hudnóphulla
Genitive	τοῦ ὑδνοφῠ́λλου toû hudnophúllou	τοῖν ὑδνοφῠ́λλοιν toîn hudnophúlloin	τῶν ὑδνοφῠ́λλων tôn hudnophúllōn
Dative	τῷ ὑδνοφῠ́λλῳ tôi hudnophúllōi	τοῖν ὑδνοφῠ́λλοιν toîn hudnophúlloin	τοῖς ὑδνοφῠ́λλοις toîs hudnophúllois
Accusative	τὸ ὑδνόφῠλλον tò hudnóphullon	τὼ ὑδνοφῠ́λλω tṑ hudnophúllō	τᾰ̀ ὑδνόφῠλλᾰ tà hudnóphulla
Vocative	ὑδνόφῠλλον hudnóphullon	ὑδνοφῠ́λλω hudnophúllō	ὑδνόφῠλλᾰ hudnóphulla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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