Καλυδών

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.ly.dɔ̌ːn/ → /ka.lyˈðon/ → /ka.liˈðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.ly.dɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.lyˈdon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.lyˈðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.lyˈðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.liˈðon/

Proper noun

Κᾰλῠδών • (Kălŭdṓn) f or m (genitive Κᾰλῠδῶνος); third declension

1. (feminine) Calydon (an ancient city in Aetolia, Greece)
2. (Greek mythology, masculine) Calydon (legendary founding king and eponym of Calydon)
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 7.21
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 10.2

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ / ἡ Κᾰλῠδών; τοῦ / τῆς Κᾰλῠδῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ Κᾰλῠδών ho / hē Kălŭdṓn
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς Κᾰλῠδῶνος toû / tês Kălŭdônos
Dative	τῷ / τῇ Κᾰλῠδῶνῐ tōî / tēî Kălŭdônĭ
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν Κᾰλῠδῶνᾰ tòn / tḕn Kălŭdônă
Vocative	Κᾰλῠδών Kălŭdṓn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Καλυδώνιος (Kaludṓnios)

Descendants

• Greek: Καλυδών (Kalydón); Καλυδώνα (Kalydóna)
• Latin: Calydon

References

• “Καλυδών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Καλυδών”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004