Φιλαδέλφεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Φιλάδελφος (Philádelphos, “brother-loving”), a surname given to Attalus II Philadelphus by his brother because of his loyalty, from φιλέω (philéō) "I love" and ἀδελφός (adelphós) "brother."

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰi.la.dél.pʰeː.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰi.laˈdɛl.pʰi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸi.laˈðel.ɸi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fi.laˈðel.fi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fi.laˈðel.fi.a/

Proper noun

Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ • (Philadélpheia) f (genitive Φῐλᾰδελφείᾱς); first declension

Philadelphia, the name of a number of Ancient cities.
The name of a festival given in honour of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ; τῆς Φῐλᾰδελφείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ hē Philadélpheia
Genitive	τῆς Φῐλᾰδελφείᾱς tês Philadelpheíās
Dative	τῇ Φῐλᾰδελφείᾳ têi Philadelpheíāi
Accusative	τὴν Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰν tḕn Philadélpheian
Vocative	Φῐλᾰδέλφειᾰ Philadélpheia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

φιλαδελφία (philadelphía, “fraternal love”)

Descendants

Arabic: فيلادلفيا‎ (Fīlādalfīyā, Fīlādilfīyā)
English: Philadelphia
German: Philadelphia
Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια (Filadélfeia)
Hebrew: פילדלפיה‎ (Filadelfya)
Italian: Filadelfia
Latin: Philadelphia
Portuguese: Filadélfia
Spanish: Filadelfia
Turkish: Philadelphia

References

Φιλαδέλφεια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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
G5359 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

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