Φοῖνιξ

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

The ethnonym is homophonous with φοῖνιξ (phoînix), the Greek name of Tyrian purple. There has been some debate as to whether the ethnonym was derived from the name of the dye or vice versa. The ethnonym is found in use in ancient Mycenaean as 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). One theory is that it is derived from the genuinely Greek adjective φοινός (phoinós, “blood-red”). Another theory is that is borrowed from Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu), probably their plural term for "woodcutters" or "carpenters", which would refer to the peoples of the land of Canaan in the region of the Levant to the north, who supplied Egypt with the cedar wood cut from their forests, although there is no evidence that the Egyptians referred to the Phoenicians by this name.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

Φοῖνῐξ • (Phoînix) m or f (genitive Φοίνῑκος); third declension

  1. Phoenician
  2. Carthaginian (as descendants of Phoenicia)

Proper noun

Φοῖνῐξ • (Phoînix) m (genitive Φοίνῑκος); third declension

  1. Phoenix, a city on the Mediterranean Sea.

Inflection

  • Inflection is the same for both noun and proper noun.
Third declension of ὁ, ἡ Φοῖνῐξ; τοῦ, τῆς Φοίνῑκος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ Φοῖνῐξ
ho, hē Phoînix 		τὼ Φοίνῑκε
tṑ Phoínīke 		οἱ, αἱ Φοίνῑκες
hoi, hai Phoínīkes
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς Φοίνῑκος
toû, tês Phoínīkos 		τοῖν Φοινῑ́κοιν
toîn Phoinī́koin 		τῶν Φοινῑ́κων
tôn Phoinī́kōn
Dative τῷ, τῇ Φοίνῑκῐ
tôi, têi Phoínīki 		τοῖν Φοινῑ́κοιν
toîn Phoinī́koin 		τοῖς, ταῖς Φοίνῑξῐ / Φοίνῑξῐν
toîs, taîs Phoínīxi(n)
Accusative τὸν, τὴν Φοίνῑκᾰ
tòn, tḕn Phoínīka 		τὼ Φοίνῑκε
tṑ Phoínīke 		τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς Φοίνῑκᾰς
toùs, tā̀s Phoínīkas
Vocative Φοῖνῐξ
Phoînix 		Φοίνῑκε
Phoínīke 		Φοίνῑκες
Phoínīkes
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