φολίς
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek. Has been also connected with Ancient Greek φελλός (phellós, “cork”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰo.lís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰoˈlis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸoˈlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /foˈlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /foˈlis/
Noun
[edit]φολῐ́ς • (pholís) f (genitive φολῐ́δος); third declension
- (of reptiles) horny scale (opposed to λεπίς (lepís), used of fish’s scales)
- Oppian, Cynegetica 3.438
- spot on a panther’s or leopard’s skin
- (in the phrase φολὶς λιθοκόλλητος) a ceiling in mosaic work
- a bandage
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φολῐ́ς hē pholís |
τὼ φολῐ́δε tṑ pholíde |
αἱ φολῐ́δες hai pholídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φολῐ́δος tês pholídos |
τοῖν φολῐ́δοιν toîn pholídoin |
τῶν φολῐ́δων tôn pholídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φολῐ́δῐ têi pholídi |
τοῖν φολῐ́δοιν toîn pholídoin |
ταῖς φολῐ́σῐ / φολῐ́σῐν taîs pholísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φολῐ́δᾰ tḕn pholída |
τὼ φολῐ́δε tṑ pholíde |
τᾱ̀ς φολῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pholídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | φολῐ́ς pholís |
φολῐ́δε pholíde |
φολῐ́δες pholídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- φολιδοῦσθαι (pholidoûsthai) (Koine)
Descendants
[edit]- Arabic: فَلْس (fals)
- English: pholidolite, pholidosis
- French: pholérite
- → English: pholerite
- Greek: φολίδα (folída)
References
[edit]- “φολίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φολίς 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension