μιλφός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The etymology is not clear, but Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.

Noun

μῐλφός • (mĭlphós) m (genitive μῐλφοῦ); second declension

1. one who suffers from the falling of the eyelashes

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῐλφός; τοῦ μῐλφοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῐλφός ho mĭlphós	τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ mĭlphṓ	οἱ μῐλφοί hoi mĭlphoí
Genitive	τοῦ μῐλφοῦ toû mĭlphoû	τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn mĭlphoîn	τῶν μῐλφῶν tôn mĭlphôn
Dative	τῷ μῐλφῷ tôi mĭlphôi	τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn mĭlphoîn	τοῖς μῐλφοῖς toîs mĭlphoîs
Accusative	τὸν μῐλφόν tòn mĭlphón	τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ mĭlphṓ	τοὺς μῐλφούς toùs mĭlphoús
Vocative	μῐλφέ mĭlphé	μῐλφώ mĭlphṓ	μῐλφοί mĭlphoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῐ́λφωσῐς (mĭ́lphōsĭs)

Further reading

• “μιλφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μίλφοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 952