Φιλοκτήτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλος (phílos, “friend”) +‎ κτάομαι (ktáomai, “to acquire”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.lok.tɛ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /ɸi.lokˈti.tis/ → /fi.lokˈti.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lok.tɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lokˈte̝.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸi.lokˈti.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fi.lokˈti.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.lokˈti.tis/

Proper noun

Φῐλοκτήτης • (Philoktḗtēs) m (genitive Φῐλοκτήτου); first declension

1. a male given name: Philoctetes

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης; τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης ho Philoktḗtēs
Genitive	τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου toû Philoktḗtou
Dative	τῷ Φῐλοκτήτῃ tôi Philoktḗtēi
Accusative	τὸν Φῐλοκτήτην tòn Philoktḗtēn
Vocative	Φῐλοκτήτη Philoktḗtē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Φιλοκτήτης (Filoktítis)
• → Latin: Philoctētēs

Further reading

• “Φιλοκτήτης”, 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