λιμένιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λιμήν (limḗn) + -ιον (-ion)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /li.mé.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /liˈme.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /liˈme.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /liˈme.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /liˈme.ni.on/
Noun
λῐμένῐον • (lĭménĭon) n (genitive λῐμενίου); second declension
- diminutive of λιμήν (limḗn)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῐμένῐον tò lĭménĭon |
τὼ λῐμενῐ́ω tṑ lĭmenĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ λῐμένῐᾰ tằ lĭménĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῐμενῐ́ου toû lĭmenĭ́ou |
τοῖν λῐμενῐ́οιν toîn lĭmenĭ́oin |
τῶν λῐμενῐ́ων tôn lĭmenĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῐμενῐ́ῳ tōî lĭmenĭ́ōi |
τοῖν λῐμενῐ́οιν toîn lĭmenĭ́oin |
τοῖς λῐμενῐ́οις toîs lĭmenĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῐμένῐον tò lĭménĭon |
τὼ λῐμενῐ́ω tṑ lĭmenĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ λῐμένῐᾰ tằ lĭménĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῐμένῐον lĭménĭon |
λῐμενῐ́ω lĭmenĭ́ō |
λῐμένῐᾰ lĭménĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Ottoman Turkish: لیمان (liman) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- λιμένιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λιμένιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “λιμένιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press