φάλος
See also: φαλός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée adduces βαλόν (balón, “sky”); if the identification is correct, the word may be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰá.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰa.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸa.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfa.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.los/
Noun
φᾰ́λος • (phálos) m (genitive φᾰ́λου); second declension
- crest of a helmet
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ φᾰ́λος; τοῦ φᾰ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φᾰ́λος ho phálos | τὼ φᾰ́λω tṑ phálō | οἱ φᾰ́λοι hoi pháloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φᾰ́λου toû phálou | τοῖν φᾰ́λοιν toîn pháloin | τῶν φᾰ́λων tôn phálōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φᾰ́λῳ tôi phálōi | τοῖν φᾰ́λοιν toîn pháloin | τοῖς φᾰ́λοις toîs phálois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φᾰ́λον tòn phálon | τὼ φᾰ́λω tṑ phálō | τοὺς φᾰ́λους toùs phálous | ||||||||||
Vocative | φᾰ́λε phále | φᾰ́λω phálō | φᾰ́λοι pháloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀμφίφαλος (amphíphalos)
- ἄφαλος (áphalos)
- τετρίφαλος (tetríphalos)
- φάλαρον (phálaron)
Further reading
- φάλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φάλος 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