Φιλήμων
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φιλήμων (philḗmōn, “kindly, affectionate”), from φιλέω (philéō, “I love”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰi.lɛ̌ː.mɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰiˈle̝.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸiˈli.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fiˈli.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈli.mon/
Proper noun
Φῐλήμων • (Philḗmōn) m (genitive Φῐλήμονος); third declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Philemon
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Φῐλήμων ho Philḗmōn | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Φῐλήμονος toû Philḗmonos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Φῐλήμονῐ tôi Philḗmoni | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Φῐλήμονᾰ tòn Philḗmona | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Φῐλῆμον Philêmon | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- G5371 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021