φαλλός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. The meaning "penis" likely developed from a more concrete meaning, and has been compared to βαλλία (ballía, “private parts”) and the ethnonym Τριβαλλοί (Triballoí). Possible Indo-European cognates are Old Irish ball (“member, body part”) as well as dialectal German Bille (“penis”), all usually compared to words for "ball, sack, bull, testis" and similar, supposedly deriving from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell”) (id est: *bʰl̥nós > *pʰəlnós > *pʰəllós). Probably akin to φάλλαινα (phállaina, “whale”), because of the body shape of whales.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰal.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰalˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸalˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /falˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /faˈlos/
Noun
φαλλός • (phallós) m (genitive φαλλοῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ φαλλός ho phallós |
τὼ φαλλώ tṑ phallṓ |
οἱ φαλλοί hoi phalloí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φαλλοῦ toû phalloû |
τοῖν φαλλοῖν toîn phalloîn |
τῶν φαλλῶν tôn phallôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φαλλῷ tôi phallôi |
τοῖν φαλλοῖν toîn phalloîn |
τοῖς φαλλοῖς toîs phalloîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν φαλλόν tòn phallón |
τὼ φαλλώ tṑ phallṓ |
τοὺς φαλλούς toùs phalloús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φαλλέ phallé |
φαλλώ phallṓ |
φαλλοί phalloí | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (phallus): βαλλίον (ballíon)
Descendants
- → Old Armenian: փաղղոս (pʻałłos)
- → Latin: phallus
- Asturian: falu
- Catalan: fal·lus
- → Czech: falus
- → Dutch: fallus
- → English: phallus
- → French: phallus
- Galician: falo
- → German: Phallus
- Italian: fallo
- → Occitan: fallus
- → Polish: fallus
- → Portuguese: falo
- Romanian: falus (possibly via French)
- → Russian: фа́ллус (fállus), фалл (fall)
- → Serbo-Croatian: falus, фалус
- Sicilian: fallu
- Spanish: falo
- → Turkish: fallus
- Greek: φαλλός (fallós)
- → Danish: fallos
- → Estonian: fallos
- → Finnish: fallos
- → Norwegian: fallos
- → Russian: фа́ллос (fállos)
- → Swedish: fallos
- →? Albanian: pallë
References
- “φαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φαλλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φαλλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1550
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).
Pronunciation
Noun
φαλλός • (fallós) m (plural φαλλοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | φαλλός (fallós) | φαλλοί (falloí) |
| genitive | φαλλού (falloú) | φαλλών (fallón) |
| accusative | φαλλό (falló) | φαλλούς (falloús) |
| vocative | φαλλέ (fallé) | φαλλοί (falloí) |
Synonyms
- πέος (péos)
Derived terms
- φαλλικός (fallikós)
Further reading
φαλλός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
