πόλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολιός (poliós, “grey”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.li.on/ → /ˈpo.li.on/ → /ˈpo.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/

Noun

πόλῐον • (pólion) n (genitive πολῐ́ου); second declension

1. felty germander (Teucrium polium)

   Synonyms: ἀχαιμενῐ́ς (akhaimenís), ἐβενῖτῐς (ebenîtis), τεύθρῐον (teúthrion)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πόλῐον; τοῦ πολῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πόλῐον tò pólion	τὼ πολῐ́ω tṑ políō	τᾰ̀ πόλῐᾰ tà pólia
Genitive	τοῦ πολῐ́ου toû políou	τοῖν πολῐ́οιν toîn políoin	τῶν πολῐ́ων tôn políōn
Dative	τῷ πολῐ́ῳ tôi políōi	τοῖν πολῐ́οιν toîn políoin	τοῖς πολῐ́οις toîs políois
Accusative	τὸ πόλῐον tò pólion	τὼ πολῐ́ω tṑ políō	τᾰ̀ πόλῐᾰ tà pólia
Vocative	πόλῐον pólion	πολῐ́ω políō	πόλῐᾰ pólia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τρῐπόλῐον (tripólion)

Descendants

• → Latin: polion

Further reading

• “πόλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πόλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette