φορτίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φόρτος (phórtos, “load, weight”) + -ῐ́ον (-íon, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰor.tí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰorˈti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸorˈti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /forˈti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /forˈti.on/
Noun
φορτῐ́ον • (phortíon) n (genitive φορτῐ́ου); second declension
- load, burden, freight
- (in the plural) wares, merchandise
- (in the plural) agricultural product, crops
- child in the womb
- (figuratively) burden, cause of worry
Declension
Second declension of τὸ φορτῐ́ον; τοῦ φορτῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ φορτῐ́ον tò phortíon | τὼ φορτῐ́ω tṑ phortíō | τᾰ̀ φορτῐ́ᾰ tà phortía | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φορτῐ́ου toû phortíou | τοῖν φορτῐ́οιν toîn phortíoin | τῶν φορτῐ́ων tôn phortíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φορτῐ́ῳ tôi phortíōi | φορτῐ́οιν phortíoin | τοῖς φορτῐ́οις toîs phortíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ φορτῐ́ον tò phortíon | φορτῐ́ω phortíō | τᾰ̀ φορτῐ́ᾰ tà phortía | ||||||||||
Vocative | φορτῐ́ον phortíon | φορτῐ́ω phortíō | φορτῐ́ᾰ phortía | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: φορτίο (fortío)
References
- φορτίον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φορτίον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φορτίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette