λεγεών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λεγιών (legiṓn)
- ληγιών (lēgiṓn)
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /le.ɡe.ɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /le.ɡeˈon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /le.ʝeˈon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /le.ʝeˈon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /le.ʝeˈon/
Noun
λεγεών • (legeṓn) m (genitive λεγεῶνος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λεγεών hē legeṓn |
τὼ λεγεῶνε tṑ legeône |
αἱ λεγεῶνες hai legeônes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λεγεῶνος tês legeônos |
τοῖν λεγεώνοιν toîn legeṓnoin |
τῶν λεγεώνων tôn legeṓnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λεγεῶνῐ tēî legeônĭ |
τοῖν λεγεώνοιν toîn legeṓnoin |
ταῖς λεγεῶσῐ / λεγεῶσῐν taîs legeôsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λεγεῶνᾰ tḕn legeônă |
τὼ λεγεῶνε tṑ legeône |
τᾱ̀ς λεγεῶνᾰς tā̀s legeônăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λεγεών legeṓn |
λεγεῶνε legeône |
λεγεῶνες legeônes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λεγεώνα (legeóna)
- → Aramaic: לגיונא
- → Coptic: ⲗⲉⲅⲉⲱⲛ (legeōn)
- → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍉𐌽 (laigaiōn)
- → Ossetian: легъион (leǧion)
References
- “λεγεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεγεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεγεών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3003 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible