Φιλομήλη
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least the time of Ovid as + μέλος (mélos, “song”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰi.lo.mɛ̌ː.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰi.loˈme̝.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸi.loˈmi.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fi.loˈmi.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fi.loˈmi.li/
Proper noun
Φῐλομήλη • (Philomḗlē) f (genitive Φῐλομήλης); first declension
- a female given name: Philomela, particularly the sister of Procne who was raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus
- (literary zoology, originally) The swallow.
- (literary zoology, later) The nightingale.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Φῐλομήλη hē Philomḗlē | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Φῐλομήλης tês Philomḗlēs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Φῐλομήλῃ têi Philomḗlēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Φῐλομήλην tḕn Philomḗlēn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Φῐλομήλη Philomḗlē | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021