φλόμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φλόνος (phlónos)

Etymology

Clearly related to πλόμος (plómos, “poison with mullein”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰló.mos/ → /ˈɸlo.mos/ → /ˈflo.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰló.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰlo.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸlo.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈflo.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈflo.mos/

Noun

φλόμος • (phlómos) m (genitive φλόμου); second declension

1. mullein (Verbascum sinuatum)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φλόμος; τοῦ φλόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φλόμος ho phlómos	τὼ φλόμω tṑ phlómō	οἱ φλόμοι hoi phlómoi
Genitive	τοῦ φλόμου toû phlómou	τοῖν φλόμοιν toîn phlómoin	τῶν φλόμων tôn phlómōn
Dative	τῷ φλόμῳ tôi phlómōi	τοῖν φλόμοιν toîn phlómoin	τοῖς φλόμοις toîs phlómois
Accusative	τὸν φλόμον tòn phlómon	τὼ φλόμω tṑ phlómō	τοὺς φλόμους toùs phlómous
Vocative	φλόμε phlóme	φλόμω phlómō	φλόμοι phlómoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἱππόφλομος (hippóphlomos)
• φλομίς (phlomís)
• φλομώδης (phlomṓdēs)

 

Further reading

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