ψάλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
With ψέλιον (psélion, “armlet worn by the Persians”) and ψαλόν (psalón, “kind of bridle”) an Iranian borrowing; synonymous to Classical Persian افسار (afsār, “curb chain, halter, headstall”), and note also افسر (afsar, “diadem”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psá.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpsa.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpsa.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpsa.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpsa.li.on/
Noun
ψάλῐον • (psálĭon) n (genitive ψᾰλίου); second declension
- curb chain
- (in the plural) chain, bond
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ψάλῐον tò psálĭon |
τὼ ψαλῐ́ω tṑ psalĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ψάλῐᾰ tằ psálĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ψαλῐ́ου toû psalĭ́ou |
τοῖν ψαλῐ́οιν toîn psalĭ́oin |
τῶν ψαλῐ́ων tôn psalĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ψαλῐ́ῳ tōî psalĭ́ōi |
τοῖν ψαλῐ́οιν toîn psalĭ́oin |
τοῖς ψαλῐ́οις toîs psalĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ψάλῐον tò psálĭon |
τὼ ψαλῐ́ω tṑ psalĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ψάλῐᾰ tằ psálĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ψάλῐον psálĭon |
ψαλῐ́ω psalĭ́ō |
ψάλῐᾰ psálĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ψάλιο (psálio)
Further reading
- “ψάλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ψάλιον 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