φάλος

See also: φαλός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Contested. Furnée adduces βαλόν (balón, “sky”); if the identification is correct, the word may be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

φᾰ́λος • (phálos) m (genitive φᾰ́λου); second declension

1. crest of a helmet

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φᾰ́λος; τοῦ φᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φᾰ́λος ho phálos	τὼ φᾰ́λω tṑ phálō	οἱ φᾰ́λοι hoi pháloi
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰ́λου toû phálou	τοῖν φᾰ́λοιν toîn pháloin	τῶν φᾰ́λων tôn phálōn
Dative	τῷ φᾰ́λῳ tôi phálōi	τοῖν φᾰ́λοιν toîn pháloin	τοῖς φᾰ́λοις toîs phálois
Accusative	τὸν φᾰ́λον tòn phálon	τὼ φᾰ́λω tṑ phálō	τοὺς φᾰ́λους toùs phálous
Vocative	φᾰ́λε phále	φᾰ́λω phálō	φᾰ́λοι pháloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀμφίφαλος (amphíphalos)
• ἄφαλος (áphalos)
• τετρίφαλος (tetríphalos)
• τρυφάλεια (trupháleia)
• φάλαρον (phálaron)

 

Further reading

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