σίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology is still unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
Noun
σίον • (síon) n (genitive σίου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σῐ́ον tò sĭ́on |
τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ sĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tằ sĭ́ă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῐ́ου toû sĭ́ou |
τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn sĭ́oin |
τῶν σῐ́ων tôn sĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῐ́ῳ tōî sĭ́ōi |
τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn sĭ́oin |
τοῖς σῐ́οις toîs sĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σῐ́ον tò sĭ́on |
τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ sĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tằ sĭ́ă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῐ́ον sĭ́on |
σῐ́ω sĭ́ō |
σῐ́ᾰ sĭ́ă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Sium
Further reading
- “σίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίον 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