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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

  • ἥκειν ἤδη καὶ μὴ μέλλειν τῷ τε μαγείρῳ μὴ λυμαίνεσθ’, ὡσ τῶν ὄψων ἑφθῶν ὄντων, ὀπτῶν ὄντων, ψυχρῶν ὄντων, καθ’ ἕκαστα λέγων βολβόσ, ἐλαία, σκόροδον, καυλόσ, κολοκύντη, ἔτνοσ, θρῖον, φυλλάσ, θύννου τεμάχη, γλάνιδοσ, γαλεοῦ, ῥίνησ, γόγγρου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 67 2:11)
  • ἄριστα τούτοισ πάντα πιέσω καὶ πυκνά, ἡ φυλλὰσ ἡ δριμεῖα περιοισθήσεται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 11 3:5)
  • φυλλὰσ ἡ δείπνων κατάλυσισ ἥδε καθάπερ σχημάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 17 8:2)
  • στιπτή γε φυλλὰσ ὡσ ἐναυλίζοντί τῳ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:10)
  • ῥίζησ γὰρ οὔσησ φυλλὰσ ἵκετ’ ἐσ δόμουσ, σκιὰν ὑπερτείνασα σειρίου κυνόσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 12:7)

Synonyms

  1. the leaves or foliage

  2. a tree or plant

Related

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

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