λεγεών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- λεγιών (legiṓn)
- ληγιών (lēgiṓn)
Etymology
From Latin legiō.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /le.ɡe.ɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /le.ɡeˈon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /le.ʝeˈon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /le.ʝeˈon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /le.ʝeˈon/
Noun
λεγεών • (legeṓn) m (genitive λεγεῶνος); third declension
- legion
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ λεγεών; τῆς λεγεῶνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λεγεών hē legeṓn | τὼ λεγεῶνε tṑ legeône | αἱ λεγεῶνες hai legeônes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λεγεῶνος tês legeônos | τοῖν λεγεώνοιν toîn legeṓnoin | τῶν λεγεώνων tôn legeṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λεγεῶνῐ têi legeôni | τοῖν λεγεώνοιν toîn legeṓnoin | ταῖς λεγεῶσῐ / λεγεῶσῐν taîs legeôsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λεγεῶνᾰ tḕn legeôna | τὼ λεγεῶνε tṑ legeône | τᾱ̀ς λεγεῶνᾰς tā̀s legeônas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λεγεών legeṓn | λεγεῶνε legeône | λεγεῶνες legeônes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λεγεώνα (legeóna)
- → Aramaic: לגיונא
- → Coptic: ⲗⲉⲅⲉⲱⲛ (legeōn)
- → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍉𐌽 (laigaiōn)
References
- “λεγεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λεγεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λεγεών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3003 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible