φῦλον

See also: φύλλον and φύλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φύω (phúō).

Pronunciation
 

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

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

Descendants
  • Greek: φύλο (fýlo)
  • → English: phylum

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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