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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φύω (phúō, “I generate, cause to grow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰy.tón/ → /ɸyˈton/ → /fiˈton/
Noun
φῠτόν • (phutón) n (genitive φῠτοῦ); second declension
- plant, tree
- creature
- child, descendant
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Further reading
- “φυτόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φυτόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φυτόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φυτόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- φυτόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φυτόν”, 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.
- creature idem, page 183.
- herb idem, page 397.
- offspring idem, page 571.
- plant idem, page 617.
- progeny idem, page 653.
- sapling idem, page 734.
- scion idem, page 740.
- seedling idem, page 749.
- thing idem, page 867.
- tree idem, page 893.
- vegetable idem, page 945.
- weed idem, page 972.