κλειδίον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κλειδίν (kleidín) — Byzantine

Etymology

From κλείς (kleís, “bolt, catch, key”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, “diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kleː.dí.on/ → /kliˈði.on/ → /kliˈði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kleː.dí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kliˈdi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kliˈði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kliˈði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kliˈði.on/

Noun

κλειδῐ́ον • (kleidíon) n (genitive κλειδῐ́ου); second declension

1. Little key.
   1. Stopcock.
2. Synonym of κλείς (kleís). (of the tunny)
3. (medicine) A kind of astringent pill or astringent suppository.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κλειδῐ́ον; τοῦ κλειδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κλειδῐ́ον tò kleidíon	τὼ κλειδῐ́ω tṑ kleidíō	τᾰ̀ κλειδῐ́ᾰ tà kleidía
Genitive	τοῦ κλειδῐ́ου toû kleidíou	τοῖν κλειδῐ́οιν toîn kleidíoin	τῶν κλειδῐ́ων tôn kleidíōn
Dative	τῷ κλειδῐ́ῳ tôi kleidíōi	τοῖν κλειδῐ́οιν toîn kleidíoin	τοῖς κλειδῐ́οις toîs kleidíois
Accusative	τὸ κλειδῐ́ον tò kleidíon	τὼ κλειδῐ́ω tṑ kleidíō	τᾰ̀ κλειδῐ́ᾰ tà kleidía
Vocative	κλειδῐ́ον kleidíon	κλειδῐ́ω kleidíō	κλειδῐ́ᾰ kleidía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: κλειδίν (kleidín), κλειδί (kleidí)
  • Greek: κλειδί (kleidí)
• → Translingual: Cleidion

References

• “κλειδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλειδίον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften