ἔχιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἔχις (ékhis, “viper”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), because of the resemblance of the fruit to the head of a snake.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.kʰi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɛ.kʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.xi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.çi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.çi.on/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἔχῐον tò ékhion |
τὼ ἐχῐ́ω tṑ ekhíō |
τᾰ̀ ἔχῐᾰ tà ékhia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐχῐ́ου toû ekhíou |
τοῖν ἐχῐ́οιν toîn ekhíoin |
τῶν ἐχῐ́ων tôn ekhíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐχῐ́ῳ tôi ekhíōi |
τοῖν ἐχῐ́οιν toîn ekhíoin |
τοῖς ἐχῐ́οις toîs ekhíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἔχῐον tò ékhion |
τὼ ἐχῐ́ω tṑ ekhíō |
τᾰ̀ ἔχῐᾰ tà ékhia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἔχῐον ékhion |
ἐχῐ́ω ekhíō |
ἔχῐᾰ ékhia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Echium
Further reading
- ἔχιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔχιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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