πόδιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πούς (poús, “foot”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

πόδῐον • (pódion) n (genitive ποδίου); second declension

1. foot of a vase
2. (Byzantine) trunk, cutting, plant

Declension

Second declension of τὸ πόδῐον; τοῦ ποδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πόδῐον tò pódion	τὼ ποδῐ́ω tṑ podíō	τᾰ̀ πόδῐᾰ tà pódia
Genitive	τοῦ ποδῐ́ου toû podíou	τοῖν ποδῐ́οιν toîn podíoin	τῶν ποδῐ́ων tôn podíōn
Dative	τῷ ποδῐ́ῳ tôi podíōi	τοῖν ποδῐ́οιν toîn podíoin	τοῖς ποδῐ́οις toîs podíois
Accusative	τὸ πόδῐον tò pódion	τὼ ποδῐ́ω tṑ podíō	τᾰ̀ πόδῐᾰ tà pódia
Vocative	πόδῐον pódion	ποδῐ́ω podíō	πόδῐᾰ pódia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἱερακοπόδιον (hierakopódion)
• καμηλοπόδιον (kamēlopódion)

Descendants

• Greek: πόδι (pódi)
• Latin: podium (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• πόδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πόδιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• πόδιον 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
• “πόδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press