Φοῖβος

See also: φοῖβος and Φοίβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φοῖβος (phoîbos, “pure, bright, radiant”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoigʷ-o-, from *bʰeigʷ- (“to shine, clear”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Φοῖβος • (Phoîbos) m (genitive Φοίβου); second declension

  1. Phoebus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Φοῖβος; τοῦ Φοίβου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Φοῖβος
ho Phoîbos
Genitive τοῦ Φοίβου
toû Phoíbou
Dative τῷ Φοίβῳ
tôi Phoíbōi
Accusative τὸν Φοῖβον
tòn Phoîbon
Vocative Φοῖβε
Phoîbe
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Φοίβος (Foívos)
  • Latin: Phoebus

Further reading
  • Φοῖβος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Φοῖβος 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, page 1,022
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