μυριόφυλλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῡρίος (mūríos, “ten thousand”) +‎ φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /myː.ri.ó.pʰyl.lon/ → /my.riˈo.ɸyl.lon/ → /mi.riˈo.fi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /myː.ri.ó.pʰyl.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /my.riˈo.pʰyl.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /my.riˈo.ɸyl.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /my.riˈo.fyl.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /mi.riˈo.fi.lon/

Noun

μῡρῐόφυλλον • (mūrióphullon) n (genitive μῡρῐοφῠ́λλου); second declension

1. spiked watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μῡρῐόφῠλλον; τοῦ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῡρῐόφῠλλον tò mūrióphullon	τὼ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλω tṑ mūriophúllō	τᾰ̀ μῡρῐόφῠλλᾰ tà mūrióphulla
Genitive	τοῦ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλου toû mūriophúllou	τοῖν μῡρῐοφῠ́λλοιν toîn mūriophúlloin	τῶν μῡρῐοφῠ́λλων tôn mūriophúllōn
Dative	τῷ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλῳ tôi mūriophúllōi	τοῖν μῡρῐοφῠ́λλοιν toîn mūriophúlloin	τοῖς μῡρῐοφῠ́λλοις toîs mūriophúllois
Accusative	τὸ μῡρῐόφῠλλον tò mūrióphullon	τὼ μῡρῐοφῠ́λλω tṑ mūriophúllō	τᾰ̀ μῡρῐόφῠλλᾰ tà mūrióphulla
Vocative	μῡρῐόφῠλλον mūrióphullon	μῡρῐοφῠ́λλω mūriophúllō	μῡρῐόφῠλλᾰ mūrióphulla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Myriophyllum

Further reading

• “μυριόφυλλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μυριόφυλλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette