μυριόφυλλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῡρίος (mūríos, “ten thousand”) +‎ φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myː.ri.ó.pʰyl.lon/ → /my.riˈo.ɸyl.lon/ → /mi.riˈo.fi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myː.ri.ó.pʰyl.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /my.riˈo.pʰyl.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /my.riˈo.ɸyl.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /my.riˈo.fyl.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.riˈo.fi.lon/

Noun

μῡρῐόφυλλον • (mūrĭóphullon) n (genitive μῡρῐοφῠ́λλου); second declension

1. spiked watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μῡρῐόφῠλλον; τοῦ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῡρῐόφῠλλον tò mūrĭóphŭllon	τὼ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλω tṑ mūrĭophŭ́llō	τᾰ̀ μῡρῐόφῠλλᾰ tằ mūrĭóphŭllă
Genitive	τοῦ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλου toû mūrĭophŭ́llou	τοῖν μῡρῐοφῠ́λλοιν toîn mūrĭophŭ́lloin	τῶν μῡρῐοφῠ́λλων tôn mūrĭophŭ́llōn
Dative	τῷ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλῳ tôi mūrĭophŭ́llōi	τοῖν μῡρῐοφῠ́λλοιν toîn mūrĭophŭ́lloin	τοῖς μῡρῐοφῠ́λλοις toîs mūrĭophŭ́llois
Accusative	τὸ μῡρῐόφῠλλον tò mūrĭóphŭllon	τὼ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλω tṑ mūrĭophŭ́llō	τᾰ̀ μῡρῐόφῠλλᾰ tằ mūrĭóphŭllă
Vocative	μῡρῐόφῠλλον mūrĭóphŭllon	μῡρῐοφῠ́λλω mūrĭophŭ́llō	μῡρῐόφῠλλᾰ mūrĭóphŭllă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Myriophyllum

Further reading

• “μυριόφυλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μυριόφυλλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette