Φίλιππος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλιππος (phílippos, “fond of horses”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”) +‎ ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰí.lip.pos/ → /ˈɸi.lip.pos/ → /ˈfi.li.pos/

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

Proper noun

Φῐ́λῐππος • (Phílippos) m (genitive Φῐλῐ́ππου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Philip

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Φῐ́λῐππος; τοῦ Φῐλῐ́ππου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φῐ́λῐππος ho Phílippos
Genitive	τοῦ Φῐλῐ́ππου toû Philíppou
Dative	τῷ Φῐλῐ́ππῳ tôi Philíppōi
Accusative	τὸν Φῐ́λῐππον tòn Phílippon
Vocative	Φῐ́λῐππε Phílippe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Φίλιπποι (Phílippoi)
• Φιλιππίζω (Philippízō)
• Φιλιππικός (Philippikós)
• Φιλίππιον (Philíppion)

Descendants

• → Arabic: فِيلِيبُوس (fīlībūs)
• → Armenian: Փիլիպպոս (Pʻilippos)
• → Belarusian: Піліп (Pilip)
• → Breton: Fulup
• → Bulgarian: Филип (Filip)
• → Catalan: Felip
• → Czech: Filip
• → Danish: Philip
• → Dutch: Filip, Philippus
• → Egyptian: prwpwysꜣ
• → Estonian: Philippos
• → Finnish: Filippus, Filippos
• → French: Philippe
• → West Frisian: Filippus
• → Galician: Filipo
• → German: Philipp
• Greek: Φίλιππος (Fílippos)
• → Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌹𐍀𐍀𐌿𐍃 (filippus)
• → Hebrew: פיליפוס (Filippos)
• → Hungarian: Fülöp
• → Irish: Pilib
• → Italian: Filippo
• → Japanese: フィリポ (Firipo), ピリッポス (Piripposu), フィリップ (Firippu)
• → Latin: Philippus
• → Latvian: Filips
• → Lithuanian: Pilypas
• → Macedonian: Филип (Filip)
• → Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭥𐭩𐭯𐭥𐭮 (Firipōs)
• → Norwegian: Filip
• → Parthian: 𐭐𐭋𐭉𐭐𐭅𐭎 (Filipōs)
• → Persian: فیلیپ (filip)
• → Polish: Filip
• → Portuguese: Filipe
• → Russian: Филипп (Filipp)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Филип, Filip
• → Slovak: Filip
• → Slovene: Filip
• → Spanish: Felipe, Filipo
• → Swedish: Filip
• → Turkish: Filip
• → Ukrainian: Філіпп (Filipp), Пилип (Pylyp)
• → Venetan: Fiłipo
• → Welsh: Philip

Further reading

• 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
• G5376 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• “φίλιππος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φίλιππος.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.li.pos/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Φί‧λιπ‧πος

Proper noun

Φίλιππος • (Fílippos) m

1. a male given name, Filippos, equivalent to English Philip
2. (in the plural) see Φίλιπποι (Fílippoi, “Philippi”) (placename)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	Φίλιππος (Fílippos)	Φίλιπποι (Fílippoi)
genitive	Φιλίππου (Filíppou)	Φιλίππων (Filíppon)
accusative	Φίλιππο (Fílippo)	Φιλίππους (Filíppous)
vocative	Φίλιππε (Fílippe)	Φίλιπποι (Fílippoi)

Genitive singular, also the less formal Φίλιππου.