φύλλον

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃-yom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. Cognates include Latin folium, Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ), and English blossom.

φῠ́λλον • (phúllon) n (genitive φῠ́λλου); second declension

1. leaf
2. (in the plural) foliage
3. plant
4. (poetic phrase, φύλλον ἐλαίας (phúllon elaías)) olive tree
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701:

     Χορός   […] ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Khorós   […] hò tâide thállei mégista khṓrāi,
     glaukâs paidotróphou phúllon elaías

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

• → English: -phyllous, phyllon, -phyll, phyllo-, -phyllic, -phylline
• Greek: φύλλο (fýllo)
  • → English: phyllo, fillo, filo, fyllo
• Mariupol Greek: фи́лу (fílu)
• Translingual: phylla, phyllus, -phyllum

• “φύλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φύλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φύλλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φύλλον 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
• φύλλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “φύλλον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5444 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blade idem, page 81.
  • herb idem, page 397.
  • leaf idem, page 482.
  • petal idem, page 609.
  • plant idem, page 617.