Φιλοκτήτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλος (phílos, “friend”) +‎ κτάομαι (ktáomai, “to acquire”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Φῐλοκτήτης • (Philoktḗtēs) m (genitive Φῐλοκτήτου); first declension

  1. a male given name: Philoctetes

Inflection
First declension of ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης; τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης
ho Philoktḗtēs
Genitive τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου
toû Philoktḗtou
Dative τῷ Φῐλοκτήτῃ
tôi Philoktḗtēi
Accusative τὸν Φῐλοκτήτην
tòn Philoktḗtēn
Vocative Φῐλοκτήτη
Philoktḗtē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Φιλοκτήτης (Filoktítis)
  • → Latin: Philoctetes

Further reading
  • “Φιλοκτήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
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