ἄπιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to Latin pirum (“pear”) and considered to be a Mediterranean substrate loanword of the form *(V)pis-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.pi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
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Noun
ἄπιον • (ápion) n (genitive ἀπίου); second declension
- pear
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ἄπιον; τοῦ ἀπίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἄπιον tò ápion | τὼ ἀπίω tṑ apíō | τᾰ̀ ἄπιᾰ tà ápia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀπίου toû apíou | τοῖν ἀπίοιν toîn apíoin | τῶν ἀπίων tôn apíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀπίῳ tôi apíōi | τοῖν ἀπίοιν toîn apíoin | τοῖς ἀπίοις toîs apíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἄπιον tò ápion | τὼ ἀπίω tṑ apíō | τᾰ̀ ἄπιᾰ tà ápia | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄπιον ápion | ἀπίω apíō | ἄπιᾰ ápia | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- ἄπιος (ápios)
Synonyms
- ἀχράς (akhrás)
Further reading
- ἄπιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄπιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄπιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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