φιλύκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Perhaps a Pre-Greek word related to φιλύρα (philúra, “lime tree”) and φυλία (phulía, “wild olive tree”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰi.lý.kɛː/ → /ɸiˈly.ci/ → /fiˈli.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.lý.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰiˈly.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈly.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈly.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈli.ci/

Noun

φῐλῠ́κη • (phĭlŭ́kē) f (genitive φῐλῠ́κης); first declension

1. alatern (Rhamnus alaternus)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῐλῠ́κη; τῆς φῐλῠ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῐλῠ́κη hē phĭlŭ́kē	τὼ φῐλῠ́κᾱ tṑ phĭlŭ́kā	αἱ φῐλῠ́και hai phĭlŭ́kai
Genitive	τῆς φῐλῠ́κης tês phĭlŭ́kēs	τοῖν φῐλῠ́καιν toîn phĭlŭ́kain	τῶν φῐλῠκῶν tôn phĭlŭkôn
Dative	τῇ φῐλῠ́κῃ têi phĭlŭ́kēi	τοῖν φῐλῠ́καιν toîn phĭlŭ́kain	ταῖς φῐλῠ́καις taîs phĭlŭ́kais
Accusative	τὴν φῐλῠ́κην tḕn phĭlŭ́kēn	τὼ φῐλῠ́κᾱ tṑ phĭlŭ́kā	τᾱ̀ς φῐλῠ́κᾱς tā̀s phĭlŭ́kās
Vocative	φῐλῠ́κη phĭlŭ́kē	φῐλῠ́κᾱ phĭlŭ́kā	φῐλῠ́και phĭlŭ́kai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Phylica

Further reading

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