φάλκης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word has been connected with φάλαγξ (phálanx, “trunk; beam”), Latin falx (“scythe”) and φάλκη (phálkē). According to Beekes, the word may well be from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰál.kɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰal.ke̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸal.cis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfal.cis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfal.cis/
Noun
φάλκης • (phálkēs) m (genitive φάλκου); first declension
- part of a ship, maybe the rib
Inflection
First declension of ὁ φάλκης; τοῦ φάλκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φάλκης ho phálkēs | τὼ φάλκᾱ tṑ phálkā | οἱ φάλκαι hoi phálkai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φάλκου toû phálkou | τοῖν φάλκαιν toîn phálkain | τῶν φαλκῶν tôn phalkôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φάλκῃ tôi phálkēi | τοῖν φάλκαιν toîn phálkain | τοῖς φάλκαις toîs phálkais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φάλκην tòn phálkēn | τὼ φάλκᾱ tṑ phálkā | τοὺς φάλκᾱς toùs phálkās | ||||||||||
Vocative | φάλκη phálkē | φάλκᾱ phálkā | φάλκαι phálkai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Italian: falca
References
- “φάλκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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