Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸylí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fylí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /filí/

Proper noun

Φῡλή • ‎(Phūlḗ) f ‎(genitive Φυλῆς); first declension

1. Phyle; Fyli, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Derived terms

• Φυλάσιος ‎(Phulásios)

Descendants

• Greek: Φυλή ‎(Fylí)
• Latin: Phyle

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸylí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fylí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /filí/

Noun

φῡλή • ‎(phūlḗ) f ‎(genitive φυλῆς); first declension

1. A union of individuals into a community
2. A union based on descent: tribe, clan
3. A union based on location: county
4. A division of soldiers

Inflection

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲫⲩⲗⲏ ‎(phulē)
• English: phyle

References

• φυλή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φυλή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φυλή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5443”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • clan idem, page 134.
  • Phyle idem, page 1022.
  • tribe idem, page 894.

Greek

Noun

φυλή • ‎(fylí) f ‎(plural φυλές)

1. race, tribe, nation, breed

Declension

Related terms

• φυλετισμός m ‎(fyletismós, “racism”)
• φυλετικός ‎(fyletikós, “racial”)

See also

• συνομοταξία f ‎(synomotaxía, “phylum”)