σίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The etymology is still unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.on/
Noun
σίον • (síon) n (genitive σίου); second declension
- water parsnip (Sium suave)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ σῐ́ον; τοῦ σῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σῐ́ον tò síon | τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ síō | τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tà sía | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σῐ́ου toû síou | τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn síoin | τῶν σῐ́ων tôn síōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σῐ́ῳ tôi síōi | τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn síoin | τοῖς σῐ́οις toîs síois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σῐ́ον tò síon | τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ síō | τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tà sía | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῐ́ον síon | σῐ́ω síō | σῐ́ᾰ sía | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Sium
Further reading
- σίον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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