λύκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Λυκία (Lukía, “Lycia”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), because this plant grows mainly in Cappadocia and Lycia.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.ki.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.ki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ci.on/
Noun
λύκῐον • (lúkĭon) n (genitive λῠκίου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῠ́κῐον tò lŭ́kĭon |
τὼ λῠκῐ́ω tṑ lŭkĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́κῐᾰ tằ lŭ́kĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῠκῐ́ου toû lŭkĭ́ou |
τοῖν λῠκῐ́οιν toîn lŭkĭ́oin |
τῶν λῠκῐ́ων tôn lŭkĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῠκῐ́ῳ tōî lŭkĭ́ōi |
τοῖν λῠκῐ́οιν toîn lŭkĭ́oin |
τοῖς λῠκῐ́οις toîs lŭkĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῠ́κῐον tò lŭ́kĭon |
τὼ λῠκῐ́ω tṑ lŭkĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́κῐᾰ tằ lŭ́kĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠ́κῐον lŭ́kĭon |
λῠκῐ́ω lŭkĭ́ō |
λῠ́κῐᾰ lŭ́kĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Lycium
Further reading
- “λύκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λύκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN