Scaife ATLAS

φῦλον φῦλον, ου, τό, φύω a race, tribe, class of men, Hom., etc.; oft. in pl. hosts, swarms, also of other animals, swarms of gnats, Il.; φῦλον ὀρνίθων the race of birds, Soph. a sex, Hes.; τὸ θῆλυ, τὸ ἄρρεν φ. Xen. in closer sense, a race of people, a nation, φῦλα Πελασγῶν Il.; κελαινὸν φ., of the Aethiopians, Aesch., etc. more closely still, = φυλή II. 1, a clan or tribe of men acc. to blood or descent, κατὰ φῦλα Il.

ShortDef

a race, tribe, class

Debugging

Headword:

φῦλον

Headword (normalized):

φῦλον

Headword (normalized/stripped):

φυλον

IDX:

35301

URN:

urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:middle-liddell.perseus-eng2-n35341

Key:

fu=lon

Data

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