ἔμφυτος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμφῠ́ω (emphŭ́ō, “implant”) +‎ -τος (-tos), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) +‎ φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “bring forth, produce”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ém.pʰy.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈem.pʰy.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.ɸy.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.fy.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈem.fi.tos/

Noun

ἔμφῠτος • (émphŭtos) m or f (neuter ἔμφῠτον); second declension

inborn, natural
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.94
- 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1671
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 776.1
- 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 15.1D
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 191d
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 237d
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 60.1
- 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 1.108
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon 12.10
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Eryxias 398c
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 33.7
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1.14
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 355b9B
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.203
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Fragments 70H
planted
implanted
- New Testament, Epistle of James 1:21

Inflection

Second declension of ἔμφῠτος; ἔμφῠτον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἔμφῠτος émphŭtos	ἔμφῠτον émphŭton	ἐμφῠ́τω emphŭ́tō	ἐμφῠ́τω emphŭ́tō	ἔμφῠτοι émphŭtoi	ἔμφῠτᾰ émphŭtă
Genitive	ἐμφῠ́του emphŭ́tou	ἐμφῠ́του emphŭ́tou	ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphŭ́toin	ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphŭ́toin	ἐμφῠ́των emphŭ́tōn	ἐμφῠ́των emphŭ́tōn
Dative	ἐμφῠ́τῳ emphŭ́tōi	ἐμφῠ́τῳ emphŭ́tōi	ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphŭ́toin	ἐμφῠ́τοιν emphŭ́toin	ἐμφῠ́τοις emphŭ́tois	ἐμφῠ́τοις emphŭ́tois
Accusative	ἔμφῠτον émphŭton	ἔμφῠτον émphŭton	ἐμφῠ́τω emphŭ́tō	ἐμφῠ́τω emphŭ́tō	ἐμφῠ́τους emphŭ́tous	ἔμφῠτᾰ émphŭtă
Vocative	ἔμφῠτε émphŭte	ἔμφῠτον émphŭton	ἐμφῠ́τω emphŭ́tō	ἐμφῠ́τω emphŭ́tō	ἔμφῠτοι émphŭtoi	ἔμφῠτᾰ émphŭtă
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ἐμφῠ́τως emphŭ́tōs		ἐμφῠτώτερος emphŭtṓteros		ἐμφῠτώτᾰτος emphŭtṓtătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἐμφῠτείᾱ (emphŭteíā)
ἐμφῠ́τευμᾰ (emphŭ́teumă)
ἐμφῠ́τευσῐς (emphŭ́teusĭs)
ἐμφῠτευτής (emphŭteutḗs)
ἐμφῠτευτῐκός (emphŭteutĭkós)
ἐμφῠτεύω (emphŭteúō)

Descendants

→ Late Latin: inpotus (Salic law)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *imputō, *imptō
  - Old French: *empter
    - French: enter
  - → Proto-West Germanic: *impōn (see there for further descendants)

“ἔμφυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἔμφυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἔμφυτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἔμφυτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
G1721 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- characteristic idem, page 125.
- congenital idem, page 160.
- constitutional idem, page 165.
- deep idem, page 203.
- hereditary idem, page 397.
- implant idem, page 421.
- in-born idem, page 426.
- in-bred idem, page 427.
- ingrained idem, page 440.
- inherent idem, page 440.
- innate idem, page 442.
- instinctive idem, page 446.
- native idem, page 551.
- natural idem, page 551.