μιλφός
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editThe etymology is not clear, but Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin.
Noun
editμῐλφός • (milphós) m (genitive μῐλφοῦ); second declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῐλφός ho milphós |
τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ milphṓ |
οἱ μῐλφοί hoi milphoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῐλφοῦ toû milphoû |
τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn milphoîn |
τῶν μῐλφῶν tôn milphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῐλφῷ tôi milphôi |
τοῖν μῐλφοῖν toîn milphoîn |
τοῖς μῐλφοῖς toîs milphoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῐλφόν tòn milphón |
τὼ μῐλφώ tṑ milphṓ |
τοὺς μῐλφούς toùs milphoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῐλφέ milphé |
μῐλφώ milphṓ |
μῐλφοί milphoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- μῐ́λφωσῐς (mílphōsis)
Further reading
edit- “μιλφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μίλφοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 952