Polyphemos

Latin

Alternative forms

• Polyphēmus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πολύφημος (Polúphēmos), from πολύ (polú) +‎ φήμη (phḗmē) +‎ -ος (-os), literally “many-voiced”, “much spoken of”, or “abounding in songs and legends”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈpʰeː.mos/, [pɔlʲʏˈpʰeːmɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.liˈfe.mos/, [poliˈfɛːmos]

Proper noun

Polyphēmos m sg (genitive Polyphēmī); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclops in Sicily, son of Neptune, who was blinded by Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey
2. (Greek mythology) One of the Argonauts
3. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Polyphemus or Polyphemos

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Polyphēmos
genitive	Polyphēmī
dative	Polyphēmō
accusative	Polyphēmon
ablative	Polyphēmō
vocative	Polyphēme

Descendants

• → English: Polyphemos

Further reading

• “Polyphemos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Polyphemos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1197.
• Polyphemos in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1764