γάλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From γάλα (gála, “milk”), because it was used in place of rennet.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡá.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡa.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣa.li.on/
Noun
γᾰ́λῐον • (gálion) n (genitive γᾰλῐ́ου); second declension
- bedstraw (Galium verum)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ γᾰ́λῐον; τοῦ γᾰλῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ γᾰ́λῐον tò gálion | τὼ γᾰλῐ́ω tṑ galíō | τᾰ̀ γᾰ́λῐᾰ tà gália | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γᾰλῐ́ου toû galíou | τοῖν γᾰλῐ́οιν toîn galíoin | τῶν γᾰλῐ́ων tôn galíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γᾰλῐ́ῳ tôi galíōi | τοῖν γᾰλῐ́οιν toîn galíoin | τοῖς γᾰλῐ́οις toîs galíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ γᾰ́λῐον tò gálion | τὼ γᾰλῐ́ω tṑ galíō | τᾰ̀ γᾰ́λῐᾰ tà gália | ||||||||||
Vocative | γᾰ́λῐον gálion | γᾰλῐ́ω galíō | γᾰ́λῐᾰ gália | ||||||||||
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Descendants
→ Translingual: Galium
Further reading
- γάλιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γάλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γάλιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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