μιλφός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology is not clear, but Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.
Noun
μῐλφός • (milphós) m (genitive μῐλφοῦ); second declension
- one who suffers from the falling of the eyelashes
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μῐλφός; τοῦ μῐλφοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῐλφός ho milphós | τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ milphṓ | οἱ μῐλφοί hoi milphoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῐλφοῦ toû milphoû | τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn milphoîn | τῶν μῐλφῶν tôn milphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῐλφῷ tôi milphôi | τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn milphoîn | τοῖς μῐλφοῖς toîs milphoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῐλφόν tòn milphón | τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ milphṓ | τοὺς μῐλφούς toùs milphoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῐλφέ milphé | μῐλφώ milphṓ | μῐλφοί milphoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μῐ́λφωσῐς (mílphōsis)
Further reading
- μιλφός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) , “μίλφοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 952