λύκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Λυκία (Lukía, “Lycia”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), because this plant grows mainly in Cappadocia and Lycia.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lý.ki.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.ki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ki.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ci.on/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῠ́κῐον tò lúkion |
τὼ λῠκῐ́ω tṑ lukíō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́κῐᾰ tà lúkia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῠκῐ́ου toû lukíou |
τοῖν λῠκῐ́οιν toîn lukíoin |
τῶν λῠκῐ́ων tôn lukíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῠκῐ́ῳ tôi lukíōi |
τοῖν λῠκῐ́οιν toîn lukíoin |
τοῖς λῠκῐ́οις toîs lukíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῠ́κῐον tò lúkion |
τὼ λῠκῐ́ω tṑ lukíō |
τᾰ̀ λῠ́κῐᾰ tà lúkia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῠ́κῐον lúkion |
λῠκῐ́ω lukíō |
λῠ́κῐᾰ lúkia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Lycium
Further reading
- λύκιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λύκιον 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
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