Φιλοκτήτης
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φίλος (phílos, “friend”) + κτάομαι (ktáomai, “to acquire”) + -της (-tēs, “-er”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰi.lok.tɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰi.lokˈte̝.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸi.lokˈti.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fi.lokˈti.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fi.lokˈti.tis/
Proper noun
Φῐλοκτήτης • (Philoktḗtēs) m (genitive Φῐλοκτήτου); first declension
- a male given name: Philoctetes
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης ho Philoktḗtēs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου toû Philoktḗtou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Φῐλοκτήτῃ tôi Philoktḗtēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Φῐλοκτήτην tòn Philoktḗtēn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Φῐλοκτήτη Philoktḗtē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Φιλοκτήτης (Filoktítis)
- → Latin: Philoctētēs
Further reading
- “Φιλοκτήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021