Φοῖβος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φοῖβος (phoîbos, “pure, bright, radiant”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰôi̯.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰy.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸy.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfy.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.vos/
Proper noun
Φοῖβος • (Phoîbos) m (genitive Φοίβου); second declension
Inflection
Related terms
Descendants
- Greek: Φοίβος (Foívos)
- → Latin: Phoebus, Fuibus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions)
- Coptic: ⲫⲟⲓⲃⲟⲥ (phoibos)
Further reading
- “Φοῖβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Φοῖβος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022