φελλός
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. The word has been compared with φολίς (pholís, “scale”) and with Russian о́болонь (óbolonʹ, “sapwood, alburnum”) but Beekes finds this improbable.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰel.lós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰelˈlos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸelˈlos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /felˈlos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /feˈlos/
Noun
φελλός • (phellós) m (genitive φελλοῦ); second declension
- cork oak (Quercus suber)
- Synonyms: θηλῠ́πρῑνος (thēlúprīnos), ἴψος (ípsos)
- cork, especially the corks on a net
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ φελλός ho phellós |
τὼ φελλώ tṑ phellṓ |
οἱ φελλοί hoi phelloí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φελλοῦ toû phelloû |
τοῖν φελλοῖν toîn phelloîn |
τῶν φελλῶν tôn phellôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φελλῷ tôi phellôi |
τοῖν φελλοῖν toîn phelloîn |
τοῖς φελλοῖς toîs phelloîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν φελλόν tòn phellón |
τὼ φελλώ tṑ phellṓ |
τοὺς φελλούς toùs phelloús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φελλέ phellé |
φελλώ phellṓ |
φελλοί phelloí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “φελλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φελλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φελλός 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), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Noun
φελλός • (fellós) m (plural φελλοί)
- cork (bottle stopper)
- Coordinate term: (screw cap) πώμα (póma)
- cork (material)
- fishing float
- (colloquial, derogatory) simpleton, airhead
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | φελλός (fellós) | φελλοί (felloí) |
| genitive | φελλού (felloú) | φελλών (fellón) |
| accusative | φελλό (felló) | φελλούς (felloús) |
| vocative | φελλέ (fellé) | φελλοί (felloí) |
Further reading
φελλός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
