ἀσφόδελος

See also: ἀσφοδελός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σποδελός (spodelós)
• σφοδελός (sphodelós)

Etymology

Borrowed Pre-Greek word, as is shown by the variants. Furnée further compares σφονδύλιον (sphondúlion), which would show pre-nasalization. A speculative attempt by Biraud, who finds the same suffix in στυφελός (stuphelós), ζάφελος (záphelos) and ῥάκελος (rhákelos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.pʰó.de.los/ → /asˈɸo.ðe.los/ → /asˈfo.ðe.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.pʰó.de.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈpʰo.de.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈɸo.ðe.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈfo.ðe.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈfo.ðe.los/

Noun

ἀσφόδελος • (asphódelos) m (genitive ἀσφόδελου); second declension

1. branched asphodel (Asphodelus ramosus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀσφόδελος; τοῦ ἀσφοδέλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀσφόδελος ho asphódelos	τὼ ἀσφοδέλω tṑ asphodélō	οἱ ἀσφόδελοι hoi asphódeloi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσφοδέλου toû asphodélou	τοῖν ἀσφοδέλοιν toîn asphodéloin	τῶν ἀσφοδέλων tôn asphodélōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσφοδέλῳ tôi asphodélōi	τοῖν ἀσφοδέλοιν toîn asphodéloin	τοῖς ἀσφοδέλοις toîs asphodélois
Accusative	τὸν ἀσφόδελον tòn asphódelon	τὼ ἀσφοδέλω tṑ asphodélō	τοὺς ἀσφοδέλους toùs asphodélous
Vocative	ἀσφόδελε asphódele	ἀσφοδέλω asphodélō	ἀσφόδελοι asphódeloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀσφοδέλινος (asphodélinos)
• ἀσφοδελός (asphodelós)
• ἀσφοδελώδης (asphodelṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: ασφοδίλι (asfodíli)
• → English: asphodel
• → Latin: asphodelus
  • Medieval Latin: affodillus
    • → Middle English: affodill
      • English: daffodil
  • Catalan: asfòdel
  • French: asphodèle
  • Galician: asfódelo
  • Italian: asfodelo
  • Occitan: asfodèl
  • Portuguese: asfódelo
  • Spanish: asfódelo
  • → Translingual: Asphodelus

Further reading

• “ἀσφόδελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀσφόδελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀσφόδελος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσφόδελος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀσφόδελος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011