τηλέφιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛː.lé.pʰi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te̝ˈle.pʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /tiˈle.ɸi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /tiˈle.fi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /tiˈle.fi.on/
Noun
τηλέφῐον • (tēléphion) n (genitive τηλεφῐ́ου); second declension
- false orpine (Andrachne telephioides)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ τηλέφῐον; τοῦ τηλεφῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τηλέφῐον tò tēléphion | τὼ τηλεφῐ́ω tṑ tēlephíō | τᾰ̀ τηλέφῐᾰ tà tēléphia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τηλεφῐ́ου toû tēlephíou | τοῖν τηλεφῐ́οιν toîn tēlephíoin | τῶν τηλεφῐ́ων tôn tēlephíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τηλεφῐ́ῳ tôi tēlephíōi | τοῖν τηλεφῐ́οιν toîn tēlephíoin | τοῖς τηλεφῐ́οις toîs tēlephíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τηλέφῐον tò tēléphion | τὼ τηλεφῐ́ω tṑ tēlephíō | τᾰ̀ τηλέφῐᾰ tà tēléphia | ||||||||||
Vocative | τηλέφῐον tēléphion | τηλεφῐ́ω tēlephíō | τηλέφῐᾰ tēléphia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Italian: telefio
- → Translingual: Telephium
Further reading
- “τηλέφιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τηλέφιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette