ὀρόντιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Strömberg from Ὀρόντης (Oróntēs) +‎ -ιον (-ion). Furnée refers to Gams, who connects it with ἄρον (áron, “arum”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /o.rón.ti.on/ → /oˈron.ti.on/ → /oˈron.di.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /o.rón.ti.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈron.ti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈron.ti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈron.ti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈron.di.on/

Noun

ὀρόντῐον • (oróntion) n (genitive ὀροντῐ́ου); second declension

1. cuckoopint (Arum maculatum), a remedy for jaundice

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ὀρόντῐον; τοῦ ὀροντῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὀρόντῐον tò oróntion	τὼ ὀροντῐ́ω tṑ orontíō	τᾰ̀ ὀρόντῐᾰ tà oróntia
Genitive	τοῦ ὀροντῐ́ου toû orontíou	τοῖν ὀροντῐ́οιν toîn orontíoin	τῶν ὀροντῐ́ων tôn orontíōn
Dative	τῷ ὀροντῐ́ῳ tôi orontíōi	τοῖν ὀροντῐ́οιν toîn orontíoin	τοῖς ὀροντῐ́οις toîs orontíois
Accusative	τὸ ὀρόντῐον tò oróntion	τὼ ὀροντῐ́ω tṑ orontíō	τᾰ̀ ὀρόντῐᾰ tà oróntia
Vocative	ὀρόντῐον oróntion	ὀροντῐ́ω orontíō	ὀρόντῐᾰ oróntia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Orontium

Further reading

• “ὀρόντιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀρόντιον 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