σαύνιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σαυνίον (sauníon)
Etymology
The etymology of this word is unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sǎu̯.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.βni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vni.on/
Noun
σαύνῐον • (saúnion) n (genitive σαυνῐ́ου); second declension
- javelin
- Synonym: ἀκόντιον (akóntion)
- (figuratively) membrum virile
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ σαύνῐον; τοῦ σαυνῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σαύνῐον tò saúnion | τὼ σαυνῐ́ω tṑ sauníō | τᾰ̀ σαύνῐᾰ tà saúnia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σαυνῐ́ου toû sauníou | τοῖν σαυνῐ́οιν toîn sauníoin | τῶν σαυνῐ́ων tôn sauníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σαυνῐ́ῳ tôi sauníōi | τοῖν σαυνῐ́οιν toîn sauníoin | τοῖς σαυνῐ́οις toîs sauníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σαύνῐον tò saúnion | τὼ σαυνῐ́ω tṑ sauníō | τᾰ̀ σαύνῐᾰ tà saúnia | ||||||||||
Vocative | σαύνῐον saúnion | σαυνῐ́ω sauníō | σαύνῐᾰ saúnia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σαυνιάζω (sauniázō)
- σαυνιαστής (sauniastḗs)
Further reading
- σαύνιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαύνιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σαύνιον 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, →ISBN