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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῑ̓θῠ́ς (īthús, “straight”) + φαλλός (phallós, “penis, phallus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iː.tʰý.pʰal.los/ → /iˈθy.ɸal.los/ → /iˈθi.fa.los/
Noun
ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος • (īthúphallos) m (genitive ῑ̓θῠφάλλου); second declension
- a phallus carried in the festivals of Bacchus
- the ode sung in honour of it
- the dance accompanying such an ode
- the one who danced in such a dance
Inflection
References
- “ἰθύφαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰθύφαλλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰθύφαλλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἰθύφαλλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften