Φήμιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

from φημί (to speak, to say) + ος (added to verb roots to form o-grade action nouns)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɛ̌ː.mi.os/ → /ˈɸi.mi.os/ → /ˈfi.mi.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɛ̌ː.mi.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰe̝.mi.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸi.mi.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.mi.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.mi.os/

Proper noun

Φήμῐος • (Phḗmios) m (genitive Φημῐ́ου); second declension

1. [[Phemius]]

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Φήμῐος; τοῦ Φημῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φήμῐος ho Phḗmios
Genitive	τοῦ Φημῐ́ου toû Phēmíou
Dative	τῷ Φημῐ́ῳ tôi Phēmíōi
Accusative	τὸν Φήμῐον tòn Phḗmion
Vocative	Φήμῐε Phḗmie
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Φήμιος (Fímios)
• Latin: Phemius

Further reading

• “Φήμιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• Φήμιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette