Ancient Greek

Noun

φῦλον • ‎(phûlon) n ‎(genitive φύλου); second declension

1. a set of people or other beings

   φῦλον θεῶν, φῦλον ἀοιδῶν, φῦλον ὀρνίθων

2. sex (male/female)
3. nation, race, tribe

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: φύλο ‎(fýlo)
• English: phylum

References

• φῦλον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φῦλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φῦλον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «φῦλον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «φῦλον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φῦλον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • division idem, page 244.
  • folk idem, page 332.
  • nation idem, page 551.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • sex idem, page 759.
  • tribe idem, page 894.