φάκελος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φάκελλος (phákellos)
Etymology
The suffix is a reminiscent of πύελος (púelos) and σκόπελος (skópelos). Furnée further compares φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “leathern bag”) and βάσκιοι (báskioi). Solmsen hesitatingly compared σφάκελος (sphákelos, “spasm, gangrene”), suggesting a common meaning "drawn together, tied together". Cognate to Albanian bashkë (“together”).[1] Beekes claims that there exists a variant in "-λλ-", and that this proves that this word is Pre-Greek, but this is dismissed by Nikolaev on the grounds that the variant in question does not actually exist.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰá.ke.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰa.ke.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸa.ce.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ce.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ce.los/
Noun
φάκελος • (phákelos) m (genitive φακέλου); second declension
- bundle, faggot
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ φάκελος; τοῦ φακέλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φάκελος ho phákelos | τὼ φακέλω tṑ phakélō | οἱ φάκελοι hoi phákeloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φακέλου toû phakélou | τοῖν φακέλοιν toîn phakéloin | τῶν φακέλων tôn phakélōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φακέλῳ tôi phakélōi | τοῖν φακέλοιν toîn phakéloin | τοῖς φακέλοις toîs phakélois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φάκελον tòn phákelon | τὼ φακέλω tṑ phakélō | τοὺς φακέλους toùs phakélous | ||||||||||
Vocative | φάκελε phákele | φακέλω phakélō | φάκελοι phákeloi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: φάκελος (fákelos)
References
- Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.93
Further reading
- “φάκελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φάκελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Greek
Alternative forms
- φάκελλος m (fákellos)
Noun
φάκελος • (fákelos) m (plural φάκελοι)
- envelope (stationery)
- file, dossier
- (computing) directory, folder (file storage)
Declension
declension of φάκελος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | φάκελος • | φάκελοι • |
genitive | φακέλου • | φακέλων • |
accusative | φάκελο • | φακέλους • |
vocative | φάκελε • | φάκελοι • |
Synonyms
- (computer directory): κατάλογος m (katálogos)
Derived terms
- φακελάκι n (fakeláki, “little envelope, bribe”)