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φυλλάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυλλάς φυλλάδος

Structure: φυλλαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/llon

Sense

  1. a heap of leaves, bed or litter of leaves
  2. the leaves or foliage, a branch or bough
  3. a tree or plant

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φυλλάς φυλλάδε φυλλάδες
Genitive φυλλάδος φυλλάδοιν φυλλάδων
Dative φυλλάδι φυλλάδοιν φυλλάσιν*
Accusative φυλλάδα φυλλάδε φυλλάδας
Vocative φυλλά φυλλάδε φυλλάδες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ ταύτασ εἵπετο βωμὸσ ἑξάπηχυσ διπλοῦσ κισσίνῃ φυλλάδι διαχρύσῳ πεπυκασμένοσ, ἔχων ἀμπέλινον χρυσοῦν στέφανον μεσολεύκοισ μίτραισ διειλημμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:103)
  • τοσαύτην δ’ ὀπώραν ἐκδίδωσιν ἡ παρόρειοσ τὴν αὐτοφυῆ καὶ ἀγρίαν σταφυλῆσ τε καὶ ὄχνησ καὶ μήλου καὶ τῶν καρυωδῶν ὥστε κατὰ πᾶσαν τοῦ ἔτουσ ὡρ́αν ἀφθόνωσ εὐπορεῖν τοὺσ ἐξιόντασ ἐπὶ τὴν ὕλην, τοτὲ μὲν ἔτι κρεμαμένων τῶν καρπῶν ἐν τοῖσ δένδρεσι, τοτὲ δ’ ἐν τῇ πεπτωκυίᾳ φυλλάδι καὶ ὑπ’ αὐτῇ κειμένων βαθείᾳ καὶ πολλῇ κεχυμένῃ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 30:11)

Synonyms

  1. the leaves or foliage

  2. a tree or plant

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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