φύλλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃-yom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“leaf, blossom, flower”). Cognates include Latin folium, Old Armenian բողբոջ (bołboǰ), and English blossom.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰýl.lon/ → /ˈɸyl.lon/ → /ˈfi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰýl.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰyl.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸyl.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfyl.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lon/

Noun

φῠ́λλον • (phúllon) n (genitive φῠ́λλου); second declension

1. leaf
2. (in the plural) foliage
3. plant
4. (poetic phrase, φύλλον ἐλαίας (phúllon elaías)) olive tree
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701:

     Χορός   […] ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Khorós   […] hò tâide thállei mégista khṓrāi,
     glaukâs paidotróphou phúllon elaías

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

Declension

Second declension of τὸ φῠ́λλον; τοῦ φῠ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φῠ́λλον tò phúllon	τὼ φῠ́λλω tṑ phúllō	τᾰ̀ φῠ́λλᾰ tà phúlla
Genitive	τοῦ φῠ́λλου toû phúllou	τοῖν φῠ́λλοιν toîn phúlloin	τῶν φῠ́λλων tôn phúllōn
Dative	τῷ φῠ́λλῳ tôi phúllōi	τοῖν φῠ́λλοιν toîn phúlloin	τοῖς φῠ́λλοις toîs phúllois
Accusative	τὸ φῠ́λλον tò phúllon	τὼ φῠ́λλω tṑ phúllō	τᾰ̀ φῠ́λλᾰ tà phúlla
Vocative	φῠ́λλον phúllon	φῠ́λλω phúllō	φῠ́λλᾰ phúlla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀγρῐόφῠλλον (agrióphullon)
• ἐλαιόφυλλον (elaióphullon)
• κᾰρῠόφῠλλον (karuóphullon)
• κῐσσόφῠλλον (kissóphullon)
• κιτρόφυλλον (kitróphullon)
• μελισσόφυλλον (melissóphullon)
• σῡκόφῠλλον (sūkóphullon)
• τρῐ́φῠλλος (tríphullos)
• ὑδνόφῠλλον (hudnóphullon)
• φύλλινος (phúllinos)
• φύλλιον (phúllion)
• φῠλλῐ́ς (phullís)
• φυλλῖτις (phullîtis)

 

Descendants

• → English: -phyllous, phyllon, -phyll, phyllo-, -phyllic, -phylline
• Greek: φύλλο (fýllo)
  • → English: phyllo, fillo, filo, fyllo
• Mariupol Greek: фи́лу (fílu)
• Translingual: phylla, phyllus, -phyllum

Further reading

• “φύλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φύλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φύλλον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φύλλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• φύλλον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “φύλλον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5444 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blade idem, page 81.
  • herb idem, page 397.
  • leaf idem, page 482.
  • petal idem, page 609.
  • plant idem, page 617.