κυδώνιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ellipsis of μῆλον Κυδώνιον (mêlon Kudṓnion, literally “Cydonian apple”), which was also compounded as μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ky.dɔ̌ː.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈdo.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈðo.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈðo.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈðo.ni.on/
Noun
κῠδώνῐον • (kŭdṓnĭon) n (genitive κῠδωνίου); second declension
- quince (fruit)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κῠδώνῐον tò kŭdṓnĭon |
τὼ κῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ kŭdōnĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κῠδώνῐᾰ tằ kŭdṓnĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῠδωνῐ́ου toû kŭdōnĭ́ou |
τοῖν κῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn kŭdōnĭ́oin |
τῶν κῠδωνῐ́ων tôn kŭdōnĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῠδωνῐ́ῳ tōî kŭdōnĭ́ōi |
τοῖν κῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn kŭdōnĭ́oin |
τοῖς κῠδωνῐ́οις toîs kŭdōnĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κῠδώνῐον tò kŭdṓnĭon |
τὼ κῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ kŭdōnĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κῠδώνῐᾰ tằ kŭdṓnĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῠδώνῐον kŭdṓnĭon |
κῠδωνῐ́ω kŭdōnĭ́ō |
κῠδώνῐᾰ kŭdṓnĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- κυδώνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κυδώνιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- κυδώνιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011