φαῦλος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Perhaps from Proto-Hellenic *pā́uros, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-, the irregular φ- (ph-) representing an expressive *pʰ-, as in Old Armenian փոքր (pʻokʻr, small).[1][2] Beekes proposes a Pre-Greek origin.[3]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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φαῦλος (phaûlosm (feminine φαύλη or φαῦλος, neuter φαῦλον); first/second declension

  1. (of things) easy, slight
    • Eur, The Suppliants 317
    1. trivial, paltry, sorry, indifferent, miserable, poor
    2. sorry, paltry, mean, bad
  2. (of persons) low in rank, mean, common
    1. worthless, sorry, indifferent, poor, common, of no account, bad
    2. careless, thoughtless, indifferent
    3. (in good sense) simple, unaffected
    4. (of outward appearance) shabby, plain
    5. (of health) ill

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Greek: φαύλος (fávlos)

References

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  1. ^ Meillet, Antoine (1935) “Les sourdes aspirées en arménien”, in Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 36, pages 112–113
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “φαῦλος”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 489a
  3. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φαῦλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1558-1559

Further reading

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