Ancient Greek

Noun

φῠ́λλον • ‎(phúllon) n ‎(genitive φῠ́λλου); second declension

1. leaf
2. (in the plural) foliage
3. plant
4. (poetic phrase, φύλλον ἐλαίας) olive tree
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 700–701

     Χορός   ... ὃ τᾷδε θάλλει μέγιστα χώρᾳ,
     γλαυκᾶς παιδοτρόφου φύλλον ἐλαίας

     Chorus: [a plant] that flourishes greatly in this land,
     the leaf of the child-nourishing gray olive tree

Declension

Descendants

• English: -phyllous

References

• φύλλον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φύλλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φύλλον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «φύλλον» 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
• «φύλλον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φύλλον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5444”, 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.
  • blade idem, page 81.
  • herb idem, page 397.
  • leaf idem, page 482.
  • petal idem, page 609.
  • plant idem, page 617.

Greek

Noun

φύλλον • ‎(fýllon) n

1. Katharevousa form of φύλλο ‎(fýllo)