Φαωφί

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian

(pꜣ-n-jpt).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰa.ɔː.pʰí/ → /ɸa.oˈɸi/ → /fa.oˈfi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰa.ɔː.pʰí/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰa.oˈpʰi/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸa.oˈɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fa.oˈfi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fa.oˈfi/

Proper noun

Φᾰωφί • (Phaōphí) m (indeclinable)

1. Phaophi, the second month of the Ancient Egyptian calendar, corresponding roughly to October
   • 62 CE, Recueil des inscriptions grecques du Fayoum I-III 1.100, (The date in the quote corresponds to: October 14th, 62 CE):

     ἔτους ἑνάτου [Νέρωνος] / Κλαυδίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ / Γερμανικοῦ Αὐτοκράτορος, Φαῶφι δ̣ʹ

     étous henátou [Nérōnos] / Klaudíou Kaísaros Sebastoû / Germanikoû Autokrátoros, Phaôphi ḍʹ

     In the ninth year [of Nero] / Claudius Caesar Augustus / Germanicus Imperator, on the 4th of Phaopi

Descendants

• → English: Phaophi

Further reading

• Φαωφί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Φαωφί”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011