πορνεῖον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”) + -εῖον (-eîon).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /por.nêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
Noun
πορνεῖον • (porneîon) n (genitive πορνείου); second declension
- brothel, whorehouse, bordello
Declension
Second declension of τὸ πορνεῖον; τοῦ πορνείου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πορνεῖον tò porneîon | τὼ πορνείω tṑ porneíō | τᾰ̀ πορνεῖᾰ tà porneîa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πορνείου toû porneíou | τοῖν πορνείοιν toîn porneíoin | τῶν πορνείων tôn porneíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πορνείῳ tôi porneíōi | τοῖν πορνείοιν toîn porneíoin | τοῖς πορνείοις toîs porneíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πορνεῖον tò porneîon | τὼ πορνείω tṑ porneíō | τᾰ̀ πορνεῖᾰ tà porneîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | πορνεῖον porneîon | πορνείω porneíō | πορνεῖᾰ porneîa | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πορνείο (porneío)
Further reading
- “πορνεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πορνεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πορνεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- brothel idem, page 101.