φάλκης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been connected with φάλαγξ (phálanx, “trunk; beam”), Latin falx (“scythe”) and φάλκη (phálkē). According to Beekes, the word may well be from Pre-Greek. For the latter possibility, compare also ἄφλᾰστον (áphlaston).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰál.kɛːs/ → /ˈɸal.cis/ → /ˈfal.cis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰál.kɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰal.ke̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸal.cis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.cis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfal.cis/

Noun

φάλκης • (phálkēs) m (genitive φάλκου); first declension

1. part of a ship, maybe the rib

Inflection

First declension of ὁ φάλκης; τοῦ φάλκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φάλκης ho phálkēs	τὼ φάλκᾱ tṑ phálkā	οἱ φάλκαι hoi phálkai
Genitive	τοῦ φάλκου toû phálkou	τοῖν φάλκαιν toîn phálkain	τῶν φαλκῶν tôn phalkôn
Dative	τῷ φάλκῃ tôi phálkēi	τοῖν φάλκαιν toîn phálkain	τοῖς φάλκαις toîs phálkais
Accusative	τὸν φάλκην tòn phálkēn	τὼ φάλκᾱ tṑ phálkā	τοὺς φάλκᾱς toùs phálkās
Vocative	φάλκη phálkē	φάλκᾱ phálkā	φάλκαι phálkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: falca

Further reading

• “φάλκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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