Φιλαδέλφεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Φιλάδελφος (Philádelphos, “brother-loving”), a surname given to Attalus II Philadelphus by his brother because of his loyalty, from φιλέω (philéō) "I love" and ἀδελφός (adelphós) "brother."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.la.dél.pʰeː.a/ → /ɸi.laˈðel.ɸi.a/ → /fi.laˈðel.fi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.la.dél.pʰeː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰi.laˈdel.pʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸi.laˈðel.ɸi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fi.laˈðel.fi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.laˈðel.fi.a/

Proper noun

Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ • (Philadélpheia) f (genitive Φῐλᾰδελφείᾱς); first declension

1. Philadelphia, the name of a number of Ancient cities.
2. The name of a festival given in honour of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

Declension

First declension of ἡ Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ; τῆς Φῐλᾰδελφείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ hē Philadélpheia
Genitive	τῆς Φῐλᾰδελφείᾱς tês Philadelpheíās
Dative	τῇ Φῐλᾰδελφείᾳ têi Philadelpheíāi
Accusative	τὴν Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰν tḕn Philadélpheian
Vocative	Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ Philadélpheia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• φιλαδελφία (philadelphía, “fraternal love”)

Descendants

• Arabic: فِيلَادِلْفِيَا (fīlādilfiyā)
• English: Philadelphia
• German: Philadelphia
• Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια (Filadélfeia)
• Hebrew: פילדלפיה (Filadelfya)
• Italian: Filadelfia
• Latin: Philadelphia
• Portuguese: Filadélfia
• Spanish: Filadelfia
• Turkish: Philadelphia

Further reading

• “Φιλαδέλφεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G5359 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible