ἄπιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to Latin pirum (“pear”) and considered to be a Mediterranean substrate loanword of the form *(V)pis-.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ἄπῐον • (ápĭon) n (genitive ἀπίου); second declension

  1. pear
    Synonym: ἀχράς (akhrás)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄπῐον; τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ ἄπῐον
tò ápĭon 		τὼ ἀπῐ́ω
tṑ apĭ́ō 		τᾰ̀ ἄπῐᾰ
tằ ápĭă
Genitive τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου
toû apĭ́ou 		τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν
toîn apĭ́oin 		τῶν ἀπῐ́ων
tôn apĭ́ōn
Dative τῷ ἀπῐ́ῳ
tōî apĭ́ōi 		τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν
toîn apĭ́oin 		τοῖς ἀπῐ́οις
toîs apĭ́ois
Accusative τὸ ἄπῐον
tò ápĭon 		τὼ ἀπῐ́ω
tṑ apĭ́ō 		τᾰ̀ ἄπῐᾰ
tằ ápĭă
Vocative ἄπῐον
ápĭon 		ἀπῐ́ω
apĭ́ō 		ἄπῐᾰ
ápĭă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄπῐον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 116

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