σαύνιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σαυνίον (sauníon)
Etymology
The etymology of this word is unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sǎu̯.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.βni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vni.on/
Noun
σαύνῐον • (saúnĭon) n (genitive σαυνῐ́ου); second declension
- javelin
- Synonym: ἀκόντιον (akóntion)
- (figuratively) membrum virile
- Samnites
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σαύνῐον tò saúnĭon |
τὼ σαυνῐ́ω tṑ saunĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σαύνῐᾰ tằ saúnĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σαυνῐ́ου toû saunĭ́ou |
τοῖν σαυνῐ́οιν toîn saunĭ́oin |
τῶν σαυνῐ́ων tôn saunĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σαυνῐ́ῳ tōî saunĭ́ōi |
τοῖν σαυνῐ́οιν toîn saunĭ́oin |
τοῖς σαυνῐ́οις toîs saunĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σαύνῐον tò saúnĭon |
τὼ σαυνῐ́ω tṑ saunĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ σαύνῐᾰ tằ saúnĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σαύνῐον saúnĭon |
σαυνῐ́ω saunĭ́ō |
σαύνῐᾰ saúnĭă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σαυνιάζω (sauniázō)
- σαυνιαστής (sauniastḗs)
Further reading
- “σαύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σαύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σαύνιον 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
- Stuart-Smith, Jane, 2004, Phonetics and Philologyz: Sound Change in Italic, OUP Oxford