Latin edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἡρόφιλος (Hēróphilos).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Hērophilus m sg (genitive Hērophilī); second declension

  1. A celebrated physician, native of Calcedon in Bithynia

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Hērophilus
Genitive Hērophilī
Dative Hērophilō
Accusative Hērophilum
Ablative Hērophilō
Vocative Hērophile

References edit

  • Herophilus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray