τοπεῖον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τοπήϊον (topḗïon)
Etymology
Maybe from the same Pre-Greek root of στυππεῖον (stuppeîon, “oakum”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /to.pêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /toˈpi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /toˈpi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /toˈpi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /toˈpi.on/
Noun
τοπεῖον • (topeîon) n (genitive τοπείου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τοπεῖον tò topeîon |
τὼ τοπείω tṑ topeíō |
τᾰ̀ τοπεῖᾰ tằ topeîă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τοπείου toû topeíou |
τοῖν τοπείοιν toîn topeíoin |
τῶν τοπείων tôn topeíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τοπείῳ tōî topeíōi |
τοῖν τοπείοιν toîn topeíoin |
τοῖς τοπείοις toîs topeíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τοπεῖον tò topeîon |
τὼ τοπείω tṑ topeíō |
τᾰ̀ τοπεῖᾰ tằ topeîă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τοπεῖον topeîon |
τοπείω topeíō |
τοπεῖᾰ topeîă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “τοπεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τοπεῖον 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