Ancient Greek

Noun

φολῐ́ς • ‎(pholís) f ‎(genitive φολίδος); third declension

1. (of reptiles) horny scale (opposed to λεπίς ‎(lepís), used of fish’s scales)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 490.B.22
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 691.A.16
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.221
   • Oppian, Cynegetica 3.438
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 257
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 17.105
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ οὔιος 6
2. spot on a panther’s or leopard’s skin
   • 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 10.27
3. (in the phrase φολὶς λιθοκόλλητος) a ceiling in mosaic work
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 18.26
4. a bandage
   • 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 48.20.11

Declension

Derived terms

• φολιδοῦσθαι ‎(pholidoûsthai) (Koine)

Descendants

• English: pholidolite, pholidosis
• French: pholérite
• Greek: φολίδα ‎(folída)

References

• φολίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «φολίς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette