φακιάλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facialē (“facecloth”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɸa.ciˈa.li.on/ → /fa.ciˈa.li.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰa.kiˈa.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸa.ciˈa.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fa.ciˈa.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fa.ciˈa.li.on/

Noun

φακιᾱ́λιον • (phakiā́lion) n (genitive φακιᾱλίου); second declension

1. facecloth, turban, towel

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ φακιᾱ́λιον; τοῦ φακιᾱλίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φακιᾱ́λιον tò phakiā́lion	τὼ φακιᾱλίω tṑ phakiālíō	τᾰ̀ φακιᾱ́λιᾰ tà phakiā́lia
Genitive	τοῦ φακιᾱλίου toû phakiālíou	τοῖν φακιᾱλίοιν toîn phakiālíoin	τῶν φακιᾱλίων tôn phakiālíōn
Dative	τῷ φακιᾱλίῳ tôi phakiālíōi	τοῖν φακιᾱλίοιν toîn phakiālíoin	τοῖς φακιᾱλίοις toîs phakiālíois
Accusative	τὸ φακιᾱ́λιον tò phakiā́lion	τὼ φακιᾱλίω tṑ phakiālíō	τᾰ̀ φακιᾱ́λιᾰ tà phakiā́lia
Vocative	φακιᾱ́λιον phakiā́lion	φακιᾱλίω phakiālíō	φακιᾱ́λιᾰ phakiā́lia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “φακιάλιον”, 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