φλοιός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formally, it belongs to φλέω (phléō, “to abound”) together with φλόος (phlóos, “skin, slough”). Semantically, the connection with φλέω (phléō) is clear in ὑπέρφλοιος (hupérphloios, “luxuriant, succulent”). Frisk thinks that the rind may have received its name from its being rich in flesh and juice, as opposed to the wood underneath. However, it could also be from the same Pre-Greek of φλέως (phléōs, “Ravenna grass”), which is suggested for φλέω (phléō) too.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰloi̯.ós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰlyˈos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸlyˈos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /flyˈos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fliˈos/
Noun
φλοιός • (phloiós) m (genitive φλοιοῦ); second declension
- (botany) bark of trees, especially smooth bark
- husk or skin of certain fruits
- membrane enclosing the eggs of certain animals
- tissue from which spiders spin their webs
- (figuratively) of superficial or useless coverings, redundancy
Declension
Second declension of ὁ φλοιός; τοῦ φλοιοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φλοιός ho phloiós | τὼ φλοιώ tṑ phloiṓ | οἱ φλοιοί hoi phloioí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φλοιοῦ toû phloioû | τοῖν φλοιοῖν toîn phloioîn | τῶν φλοιῶν tôn phloiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φλοιῷ tôi phloiôi | τοῖν φλοιοῖν toîn phloioîn | τοῖς φλοιοῖς toîs phloioîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φλοιόν tòn phloión | τὼ φλοιώ tṑ phloiṓ | τοὺς φλοιούς toùs phloioús | ||||||||||
Vocative | φλοιέ phloié | φλοιώ phloiṓ | φλοιοί phloioí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τανύφλοιος (tanúphloios)
- φλοΐζομαι (phloḯzomai)
- φλόϊνος (phlóïnos)
- φλοιοβαρής (phloiobarḗs)
- φλοιορραγής (phloiorrhagḗs)
- φλοιόρριζος (phloiórrhizos)
- φλοιόω (phloióō)
- φλοιώδης (phloiṓdēs)
Further reading
- “φλοιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλοιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φλοιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “φλοιός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bark idem, page 63.
- rind idem, page 716.
- 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
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek φλοιός (phloiós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fliˈos/
- Hyphenation: φλοι‧ός
Noun
φλοιός • (floiós) m (plural φλοιοί)
- bark (of tree)
- peel (of fruit)
- husk (of grain)
- (geography) crust of the Earth
- (anatomy) cortex
Declension
declension of φλοιός
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | φλοιός • | φλοιοί • |
genitive | φλοιού • | φλοιών • |
accusative | φλοιό • | φλοιούς • |
vocative | φλοιέ • | φλοιοί • |
Synonyms
- φλούδα f (floúda, “bark, peel”)
- δεντρόφλουδα f (dentróflouda, “tree bark”)
Derived terms
- φλοιώδης (floiódis, “barky”)
- νεοφλοιός (neofloiós, “neocortex”)
See also
- πίτουρο n (pítouro, “bran”)