ἐπιμήδιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐπι- (epi-) + μήδιον (mḗdion, “kind of bellflower”), because of the parasitic nature of this plant.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pi.mɛ̌ː.di.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.piˈme̝.di.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.piˈmi.ði.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.piˈmi.ði.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.piˈmi.ði.on/
Noun
ἐπῐμήδῐον • (epimḗdion) n (genitive ἐπῐμηδῐ́ου); second declension
- unidentified plant, perhaps Epimedium alpinum
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἐπῐμήδῐον tò epimḗdion |
τὼ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω tṑ epimēdíō |
τᾰ̀ ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ tà epimḗdia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ου toû epimēdíou |
τοῖν ἐπῐμηδῐ́οιν toîn epimēdíoin |
τῶν ἐπῐμηδῐ́ων tôn epimēdíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ῳ tôi epimēdíōi |
τοῖν ἐπῐμηδῐ́οιν toîn epimēdíoin |
τοῖς ἐπῐμηδῐ́οις toîs epimēdíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἐπῐμήδῐον tò epimḗdion |
τὼ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω tṑ epimēdíō |
τᾰ̀ ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ tà epimḗdia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐπῐμήδῐον epimḗdion |
ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω epimēdíō |
ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ epimḗdia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Epimedium
Further reading
- “ἐπιμήδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐπιμήδιον 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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