Φίλων

Φίλων

See also: φίλων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰí.lɔːn/ → /ˈɸi.lon/ → /ˈfi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰí.lɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰi.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸi.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lon/

Proper noun

Φῐ́λων • (Phílōn) m (genitive Φῐ́λωνος); third declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Philo

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Φῐ́λων; τοῦ Φῐ́λωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φῐ́λων ho Phílōn
Genitive	τοῦ Φῐ́λωνος toû Phílōnos
Dative	τῷ Φῐ́λωνῐ tôi Phílōni
Accusative	τὸν Φῐ́λωνᾰ tòn Phílōna
Vocative	Φῐ́λων Phílōn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Φίλων (Fílon)
• Latin: Philō

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• Φίλων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette