πέπων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-European *pékʷonts (“cooking, ripening”); related to πέσσω (péssō, “to soften, ripen”).

    Pronunciation

     

    Adjective

    πέπων • (pépōn) m or f (neuter πέπον); third declension

    1. ripe, softened (of fruit)
    2. (figurative) good, sweet, kind (when addressing a person)
    3. (figurative, derogatory) weak, cowardly

    Usage notes

    The two figurative senses are the only ones found in Homer.

    Declension

    Third declension of πέπων; πέπον (Attic)
    Number Singular Dual Plural
    Case/Gender Masculine / Feminine Neuter Masculine / Feminine Neuter Masculine / Feminine Neuter
    Nominative πέπων
    pépōn     		πέπον
    pépon     		πέπονε
    pépone     		πέπονε
    pépone     		πέπονες
    pépones     		πέπονᾰ
    péponă
    Genitive πέπονος
    péponos     		πέπονος
    péponos     		πεπόνοιν
    pepónoin     		πεπόνοιν
    pepónoin     		πεπόνων
    pepónōn     		πεπόνων
    pepónōn
    Dative πέπονῐ
    péponĭ     		πέπονῐ
    péponĭ     		πεπόνοιν
    pepónoin     		πεπόνοιν
    pepónoin     		πέποσῐ / πέποσῐν
    péposĭ(n)     		πέποσῐ / πέποσῐν
    péposĭ(n)
    Accusative πέπονᾰ
    péponă     		πέπον
    pépon     		πέπονε
    pépone     		πέπονε
    pépone     		πέπονᾰς
    péponăs     		πέπονᾰ
    péponă
    Vocative πέπον
    pépon     		πέπον
    pépon     		πέπονε
    pépone     		πέπονε
    pépone     		πέπονες
    pépones     		πέπονᾰ
    péponă
    Derived forms Adverb Comparative Superlative
    πεπόνως
    pepónōs     		πεπονέστερος
    peponésteros     		πεπονέστᾰτος
    peponéstătos
    Notes:
    • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

    Derived terms

    • μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn)
    • πεπόνιον n (pepónion) (Late Hellenistic diminutive)
    • σίκυος πέπων (síkuos pépōn, “a kind of gourd or melon eaten when ripe”)

    Descendants

    • → Albanian: pjep, pjepër
    • → Latin: pepō, peponem (see there for further descendants)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pipun

    Further reading

    • “πέπων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
    • πέπων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
    • “πέπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.

    Greek

    Noun

    πέπων • (pépon) m (plural πέπονες)

    1. Katharevousa form of πεπόνι (pepóni, “melon”)

    Synonyms

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