εἰδύλλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εἶδος (eîdos, “shape, form”) + -ύλλιον (-úllion, diminutive suffix)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /eː.dýl.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈdyl.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈðyl.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈðyl.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈði.li.on/
Noun
εἰδύλλῐον • (eidúllĭon) n (genitive εἰδυλλίου); second declension
- idyll (a short descriptive poem, mostly on pastoral subjects)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον tò eidŭ́llĭon |
τὼ εἰδῠλλῐ́ω tṑ eidŭllĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ tằ eidŭ́llĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ εἰδῠλλῐ́ου toû eidŭllĭ́ou |
τοῖν εἰδῠλλῐ́οιν toîn eidŭllĭ́oin |
τῶν εἰδῠλλῐ́ων tôn eidŭllĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ εἰδῠλλῐ́ῳ tōî eidŭllĭ́ōi |
τοῖν εἰδῠλλῐ́οιν toîn eidŭllĭ́oin |
τοῖς εἰδῠλλῐ́οις toîs eidŭllĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον tò eidŭ́llĭon |
τὼ εἰδῠλλῐ́ω tṑ eidŭllĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ tằ eidŭ́llĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | εἰδῠ́λλῐον eidŭ́llĭon |
εἰδῠλλῐ́ω eidŭllĭ́ō |
εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ eidŭ́llĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
Further reading
- εἰδύλλιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- εἰδύλλιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “εἰδύλλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press