κειμήλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lay; to be laid up, to be stored”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /keː.mɛ̌ː.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kiˈme̝.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈmi.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈmi.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈmi.li.on/
Noun
κειμήλῐον • (keimḗlion) n (genitive κειμηλῐ́ου); second declension
- Something stored or saved up, particularly:
- An heirloom, a family's property
- Something precious, a treasure
- (Christianity) A holy relic, a sacred relic
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κειμήλῐον; τοῦ κειμηλῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κειμήλῐον tò keimḗlion | τὼ κειμηλῐ́ω tṑ keimēlíō | τᾰ̀ κειμήλῐᾰ tà keimḗlia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κειμηλῐ́ου toû keimēlíou | τοῖν κειμηλῐ́οιν toîn keimēlíoin | τῶν κειμηλῐ́ων tôn keimēlíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κειμηλῐ́ῳ tôi keimēlíōi | τοῖν κειμηλῐ́οιν toîn keimēlíoin | τοῖς κειμηλῐ́οις toîs keimēlíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κειμήλῐον tò keimḗlion | τὼ κειμηλῐ́ω tṑ keimēlíō | τᾰ̀ κειμήλῐᾰ tà keimḗlia | ||||||||||
Vocative | κειμήλῐον keimḗlion | κειμηλῐ́ω keimēlíō | κειμήλῐᾰ keimḗlia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κειμήλιο (keimílio)
Further reading
- “κειμήλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κειμήλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κειμήλιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κειμήλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κειμήλιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- heirloom idem, page 395.
- keepsake idem, page 468.
- treasure idem, page 891.