ἰθύφαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῑ̓θῠ́ς (īthŭ́s, “straight”) +‎ φαλλός (phallós, “penis, phallus”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.tʰý.pʰal.los/ → /iˈθy.ɸal.los/ → /iˈθi.fa.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.tʰý.pʰal.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈtʰy.pʰal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈθy.ɸal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈθy.fal.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈθi.fa.los/

Noun

ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος • (īthŭ́phallos) m (genitive ῑ̓θῠφάλλου); second declension

1. a phallus carried in the festivals of Bacchus
   1. the ode sung in honour of it
   2. the dance accompanying such an ode
   3. the one who danced in such a dance

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος; τοῦ ῑ̓θῠφάλλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος ho īthŭ́phallos	τὼ ῑ̓θῠφάλλω tṑ īthŭphállō	οἱ ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλοι hoi īthŭ́phalloi
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓θῠφάλλου toû īthŭphállou	τοῖν ῑ̓θῠφάλλοιν toîn īthŭphálloin	τῶν ῑ̓θῠφάλλων tôn īthŭphállōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓θῠφάλλῳ tôi īthŭphállōi	τοῖν ῑ̓θῠφάλλοιν toîn īthŭphálloin	τοῖς ῑ̓θῠφάλλοις toîs īthŭphállois
Accusative	τὸν ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλον tòn īthŭ́phallon	τὼ ῑ̓θῠφάλλω tṑ īthŭphállō	τοὺς ῑ̓θῠφάλλους toùs īthŭphállous
Vocative	ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλε īthŭ́phalle	ῑ̓θῠφάλλω īthŭphállō	ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλοι īthŭ́phalloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “ἰθύφαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἰθύφαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἰθύφαλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰθύφαλλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften