ἴφυον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects this word with τίφυον (típhuon, “squill”). Nevertheless, a Pre-Greek word is probable a priori.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ǐː.pʰy.on/ → /ˈi.ɸy.on/ → /ˈi.fi.on/

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

Noun

ῑ̓́φῠον • (ī́phuon) n (genitive ῑ̓φύου); second declension

1. spike lavender (Lavandula latifolia)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῑ̓́φῠον; τοῦ ῑ̓φῠ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῑ̓́φῠον tò ī́phuon	τὼ ῑ̓φῠ́ω tṑ īphúō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̓́φῠᾰ tà ī́phua
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓φῠ́ου toû īphúou	τοῖν ῑ̓φῠ́οιν toîn īphúoin	τῶν ῑ̓φῠ́ων tôn īphúōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓φῠ́ῳ tôi īphúōi	τοῖν ῑ̓φῠ́οιν toîn īphúoin	τοῖς ῑ̓φῠ́οις toîs īphúois
Accusative	τὸ ῑ̓́φῠον tò ī́phuon	τὼ ῑ̓φῠ́ω tṑ īphúō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̓́φῠᾰ tà ī́phua
Vocative	ῑ̓́φῠον ī́phuon	ῑ̓φῠ́ω īphúō	ῑ̓́φῠᾰ ī́phua
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἴφυον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἴφυον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN