ἄρκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄρκος (árkos, “bear”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ár.ki.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈar.ki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.ci.on/
Noun
ἄρκῐον • (árkĭon) n (genitive ἀρκῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἄρκῐον tò árkĭon |
τὼ ἀρκῐ́ω tṑ arkĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ἄρκῐᾰ tằ árkĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀρκῐ́ου toû arkĭ́ou |
τοῖν ἀρκῐ́οιν toîn arkĭ́oin |
τῶν ἀρκῐ́ων tôn arkĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀρκῐ́ῳ tōî arkĭ́ōi |
τοῖν ἀρκῐ́οιν toîn arkĭ́oin |
τοῖς ἀρκῐ́οις toîs arkĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἄρκῐον tò árkĭon |
τὼ ἀρκῐ́ω tṑ arkĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ ἄρκῐᾰ tằ árkĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄρκῐον árkĭon |
ἀρκῐ́ω arkĭ́ō |
ἄρκῐᾰ árkĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Arctium
Further reading
- “ἄρκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄρκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄρκιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)