ἔμφυτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμφῠ́ω (emphúō, “implant”) +‎ -τος (-tos), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) +‎ φῠ́ω (phúō, “bring forth, produce”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ém.pʰy.tos/ → /ˈem.ɸy.tos/ → /ˈem.fi.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ém.pʰy.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈem.pʰy.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.ɸy.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.fy.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈem.fi.tos/

Noun

ἔμφῠτος • (émphutos) m or f (neuter ἔμφῠτον); second declension

1. inborn, natural
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.94
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1671
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 776.1
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 15.1D
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 191d
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 237d
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 60.1
   • 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 1.108
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon 12.10
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Eryxias 398c
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 33.7
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1.14
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 355b9B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.203
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Fragments 70H
2. planted
3. implanted
   • New Testament, Epistle of James 1:21

Inflection

Second declension of ἔμφῠτος; ἔμφῠτον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἔμφῠτος émphutos	ἔμφῠτον émphuton		ἐμφῠ́τω emphútō	ἐμφῠ́τω emphútō		ἔμφῠτοι émphutoi	ἔμφῠτᾰ émphuta
Genitive		ἐμφῠ́του emphútou	ἐμφῠ́του emphútou		ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphútoin	ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphútoin		ἐμφῠ́των emphútōn	ἐμφῠ́των emphútōn
Dative		ἐμφῠ́τῳ emphútōi	ἐμφῠ́τῳ emphútōi		ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphútoin	ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphútoin		ἐμφῠ́τοις emphútois	ἐμφῠ́τοις emphútois
Accusative		ἔμφῠτον émphuton	ἔμφῠτον émphuton		ἐμφῠ́τω emphútō	ἐμφῠ́τω emphútō		ἐμφῠ́τους emphútous	ἔμφῠτᾰ émphuta
Vocative		ἔμφῠτε émphute	ἔμφῠτον émphuton		ἐμφῠ́τω emphútō	ἐμφῠ́τω emphútō		ἔμφῠτοι émphutoi	ἔμφῠτᾰ émphuta
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		ἐμφῠ́τως emphútōs			ἐμφῠτώτερος emphutṓteros			ἐμφῠτώτᾰτος emphutṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐμφῠτείᾱ (emphuteíā)
• ἐμφῠ́τευμᾰ (emphúteuma)
• ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς (emphúteusis)
• ἐμφῠτευτής (emphuteutḗs)
• ἐμφῠτευτῐκός (emphuteutikós)
• ἐμφῠτεύω (emphuteúō)

Descendants

• → Late Latin: inpotus (Salic law)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *imputō, *imptō
    • Old French: *empter
      • French: enter
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *impōn (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ἔμφυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔμφυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔμφυτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔμφυτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1721 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • characteristic idem, page 125.
  • congenital idem, page 160.
  • constitutional idem, page 165.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • hereditary idem, page 397.
  • implant idem, page 421.
  • in-born idem, page 426.
  • in-bred idem, page 427.
  • ingrained idem, page 440.
  • inherent idem, page 440.
  • innate idem, page 442.
  • instinctive idem, page 446.
  • native idem, page 551.
  • natural idem, page 551.