ἀσφόδελος

See also: ἀσφοδελός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σποδελός (spodelós)
σφοδελός (sphodelós)

Etymology

Borrowed Pre-Greek word, as is shown by the variants. Furnée further compares σφονδύλιον (sphondúlion), which would show pre-nasalization. A speculative attempt by Biraud, who finds the same suffix in στυφελός (stuphelós), ζάφελος (záphelos) and ῥάκελος (rhákelos).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.pʰó.de.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈpʰo.de.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈɸo.ðe.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈfo.ðe.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈfo.ðe.los/

Noun

ἀσφόδελος • (asphódelos) m (genitive ἀσφόδελου); second declension

branched asphodel (Asphodelus ramosus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀσφόδελος; τοῦ ἀσφοδέλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀσφόδελος ho asphódelos	τὼ ἀσφοδέλω tṑ asphodélō	οἱ ἀσφόδελοι hoi asphódeloi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσφοδέλου toû asphodélou	τοῖν ἀσφοδέλοιν toîn asphodéloin	τῶν ἀσφοδέλων tôn asphodélōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσφοδέλῳ tôi asphodélōi	τοῖν ἀσφοδέλοιν toîn asphodéloin	τοῖς ἀσφοδέλοις toîs asphodélois
Accusative	τὸν ἀσφόδελον tòn asphódelon	τὼ ἀσφοδέλω tṑ asphodélō	τοὺς ἀσφοδέλους toùs asphodélous
Vocative	ἀσφόδελε asphódele	ἀσφοδέλω asphodélō	ἀσφόδελοι asphódeloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀσφοδέλινος (asphodélinos)
ἀσφοδελός (asphodelós)
ἀσφοδελώδης (asphodelṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: ασφοδίλι (asfodíli)
→ English: asphodel
→ Latin: asphodelus
- Medieval Latin: affodillus
  - → Middle English: affodill
    - English: daffodil
- Catalan: asfòdel
- French: asphodèle
- Galician: asfódelo
- Italian: asfodelo
- Occitan: asfodèl
- Portuguese: asfódelo
- Spanish: asfódelo
- → Translingual: Asphodelus

References

“ἀσφόδελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀσφόδελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀσφόδελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀσφόδελος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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