ἄρκιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἄρκος (árkos, “bear”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.ki.on/ → /ˈar.ci.on/ → /ˈar.ci.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.ki.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ci.on/

Noun

ἄρκῐον • (árkion) n (genitive ἀρκῐ́ου); second declension

1. burdock (Arctium lappa)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄρκῐον; τοῦ ἀρκῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄρκῐον tò árkion	τὼ ἀρκῐ́ω tṑ arkíō	τᾰ̀ ἄρκῐᾰ tà árkia
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρκῐ́ου toû arkíou	τοῖν ἀρκῐ́οιν toîn arkíoin	τῶν ἀρκῐ́ων tôn arkíōn
Dative	τῷ ἀρκῐ́ῳ tôi arkíōi	τοῖν ἀρκῐ́οιν toîn arkíoin	τοῖς ἀρκῐ́οις toîs arkíois
Accusative	τὸ ἄρκῐον tò árkion	τὼ ἀρκῐ́ω tṑ arkíō	τᾰ̀ ἄρκῐᾰ tà árkia
Vocative	ἄρκῐον árkion	ἀρκῐ́ω arkíō	ἄρκῐᾰ árkia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Arctium

Further reading

• “ἄρκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄρκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄρκιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)