φάκελος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φάκελλος (phákellos)

Etymology

The suffix is a reminiscent of πύελος (púelos) and σκόπελος (skópelos). Furnée further compares φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “leathern bag”) and βάσκιοι (báskioi). Solmsen hesitatingly compared σφάκελος (sphákelos, “spasm, gangrene”), suggesting a common meaning "drawn together, tied together". Cognate to Albanian bashkë (“together”). Beekes points out a variant φάκελλος (phákellos) in Aristotle, and says that this proves that this word is Pre-Greek, but this is dismissed by Nikolaev, claiming that the variant in question does not actually exist.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰá.ke.los/ → /ˈɸa.ce.los/ → /ˈfa.ce.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰá.ke.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰa.ke.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸa.ce.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ce.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ce.los/

Noun

φάκελος • (phákelos) m (genitive φακέλου); second declension

1. bundle, faggot

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φάκελος; τοῦ φακέλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φάκελος ho phákelos	τὼ φακέλω tṑ phakélō	οἱ φάκελοι hoi phákeloi
Genitive	τοῦ φακέλου toû phakélou	τοῖν φακέλοιν toîn phakéloin	τῶν φακέλων tôn phakélōn
Dative	τῷ φακέλῳ tôi phakélōi	τοῖν φακέλοιν toîn phakéloin	τοῖς φακέλοις toîs phakélois
Accusative	τὸν φάκελον tòn phákelon	τὼ φακέλω tṑ phakélō	τοὺς φακέλους toùs phakélous
Vocative	φάκελε phákele	φακέλω phakélō	φάκελοι phákeloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φάκελος (fákelos)

Further reading

• “φάκελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φάκελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Alternative forms

• φάκελλος m (fákellos)

Noun

φάκελος • (fákelos) m (plural φάκελοι)

1. envelope (stationery)
2. file, dossier
3. (computing) directory, folder (file storage)

Declension

Declension of φάκελος

	singular	plural
nominative	φάκελος (fákelos)	φάκελοι (fákeloi)
genitive	φακέλου (fakélou)	φακέλων (fakélon)
accusative	φάκελο (fákelo)	φακέλους (fakélous)
vocative	φάκελε (fákele)	φάκελοι (fákeloi)

Synonyms

• (computer directory): κατάλογος m (katálogos)

Derived terms

• φακελάκι n (fakeláki, “little envelope, bribe”)