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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φίλιππος (phílippos, “fond of horses”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰí.lip.pos/ → /ˈɸi.lip.pos/ → /ˈfi.li.pos/
Proper noun
Φῐ́λῐππος • (Phílippos) m (genitive Φῐλῐ́ππου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Philip
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- 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
- G5376 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
- “φίλιππος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Φίλιππος.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.li.pos/
- Hyphenation: Φί‧λιπ‧πος
Proper noun
Φίλιππος • (Fílippos) m
- a male given name, Filippos, equivalent to English Philip
- (in the plural) see Φίλιπποι (Fílippoi, “Philippi”) (placename)
Declension
Genitive singular, also the less formal Φίλιππου.