Ποσειδεών

Ποσειδεών

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ποσιδηϊών (Posidēïṓn)

Etymology

From Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn, “Poseidon”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.seː.de.ɔ̌ːn/ → /po.si.ðeˈon/ → /po.si.ðeˈon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.seː.de.ɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.si.deˈon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.si.ðeˈon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.si.ðeˈon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.si.ðeˈon/

Proper noun

Ποσειδεών • (Poseideṓn) m (genitive Ποσειδεῶνος); third declension

1. Posideon: the sixth month of the Attic calendar, corresponding to the lunar term around December and January

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ποσειδεών; τοῦ Ποσειδεῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ποσειδεών ho Poseideṓn
Genitive	τοῦ Ποσειδεῶνος toû Poseideônos
Dative	τῷ Ποσειδεῶνῐ tôi Poseideôni
Accusative	τὸν Ποσειδεῶνᾰ tòn Poseideôna
Vocative	Ποσειδεών Poseideṓn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “Ποσειδεών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ποσειδεών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette