Πολύφημος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολῠ- (polu-) +‎ φήμη (phḗmē) +‎ -ος (-os), literally “many-voiced”, “much spoken of”, or “abounding in songs and legends”.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Πολῠ́φημος • (Polúphēmos) m (genitive Πολῠφήμου); second declension

  1. a male given name: Polyphemus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Πολῠ́φημος; τοῦ Πολῠφήμου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Πολῠ́φημος
ho Polúphēmos
Genitive τοῦ Πολῠφήμου
toû Poluphḗmou
Dative τῷ Πολῠφήμῳ
tôi Poluphḗmōi
Accusative τὸν Πολῠ́φημον
tòn Polúphēmon
Vocative Πολῠ́φημε
Polúphēme
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading
  • “Πολύφημος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
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