ἰθύφαλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῑ̓θῠ́ς (īthús, “straight”) +‎ φαλλός (phallós, “penis, phallus”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.tʰý.pʰal.los/ → /iˈθy.ɸal.los/ → /iˈθi.fa.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /iː.tʰý.pʰal.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈtʰy.pʰal.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈθy.ɸal.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈθy.fal.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈθi.fa.los/

Noun

ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος • (īthúphallos) m (genitive ῑ̓θῠφάλλου); second declension

1. a phallus carried in the festivals of Bacchus
   1. the ode sung in honour of it
   2. the dance accompanying such an ode
   3. the one who danced in such a dance

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος; τοῦ ῑ̓θῠφάλλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος ho īthúphallos	τὼ ῑ̓θῠφάλλω tṑ īthuphállō	οἱ ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλοι hoi īthúphalloi
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓θῠφάλλου toû īthuphállou	τοῖν ῑ̓θῠφάλλοιν toîn īthuphálloin	τῶν ῑ̓θῠφάλλων tôn īthuphállōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓θῠφάλλῳ tôi īthuphállōi	τοῖν ῑ̓θῠφάλλοιν toîn īthuphálloin	τοῖς ῑ̓θῠφάλλοις toîs īthuphállois
Accusative	τὸν ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλον tòn īthúphallon	τὼ ῑ̓θῠφάλλω tṑ īthuphállō	τοὺς ῑ̓θῠφάλλους toùs īthuphállous
Vocative	ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλε īthúphalle	ῑ̓θῠφάλλω īthuphállō	ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλοι īthúphalloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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