Talk:Philip

More Philips in Antiquity
http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2603.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.219.255.234 (talk) 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Merged "Phillip"
Considering these were two spellings of the same name, I merged the little information from the Phillip article here and then changed Phillip into a redirect to this page. -BaronGrackle (talk) 06:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Is there any particular significance to the one-L and two-L spellings ?Eregli bob (talk) 13:04, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Greek or Macedonian?
I just undid this anonymous edit that claimed that the name Philip was from Macedonian, not Greek. It looked suspicious, as the page has listed it as being from Greek all along, but I didn't want to dismiss this claim outright as I have no expertise in this area. Can anyone shed some light on this claim? — GypsyJiver  ( drop me a line ) 14:22, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Horse-lover
Is in fact what the name means. The prefix φίλο's from the adjectival form of φίλος concerning all forms of affection, not the noun whose meaning is more circumscribed. Since the "Behind the Name" page is (a) much less authoritative on Greek than Liddell; (b) in fact an unreliable source in general; and (c) demonstrably wrong in this instance, I removed it. Since the rest of the commentary by the editor (apparently someone teased for being named Philip) was completely contradicted by the reliable sources, I removed it.

The point about "horse-loving [man]" being a metonym for "noble" is interesting and plausible, so left that, but it needs a source to avoid seeming like more WP:OR. — LlywelynII  01:20, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

diminutive forms?
"It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, and Pep or Peps."...according to the article.

but Pep or Peps? are there any examples of Pep/s that is a real human being from this planet that allegedly uses either form? EVERY single famous "Pep" in the linked page is the diminutive for "Josep". SollyWIKI (talk) 04:48, 29 November 2023 (UTC)