εἰδύλλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἶδος (eîdos, “shape, form”) +‎ -ύλλιον (-úllion, diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.dýl.li.on/ → /iˈðyl.li.on/ → /iˈði.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.dýl.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈdyl.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈðyl.li.on/
• (10^th CE Medieval) IPA^(key): /iˈðyl.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈði.li.on/

Noun

εἰδύλλῐον • (eidúllĭon) n (genitive εἰδυλλίου); second declension

1. idyll (a short descriptive poem, mostly on pastoral subjects)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον; τοῦ εἰδῠλλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον tò eidŭ́llĭon	τὼ εἰδῠλλῐ́ω tṑ eidŭllĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ tằ eidŭ́llĭă
Genitive	τοῦ εἰδῠλλῐ́ου toû eidŭllĭ́ou	τοῖν εἰδῠλλῐ́οιν toîn eidŭllĭ́oin	τῶν εἰδῠλλῐ́ων tôn eidŭllĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ εἰδῠλλῐ́ῳ tōî eidŭllĭ́ōi	τοῖν εἰδῠλλῐ́οιν toîn eidŭllĭ́oin	τοῖς εἰδῠλλῐ́οις toîs eidŭllĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον tò eidŭ́llĭon	τὼ εἰδῠλλῐ́ω tṑ eidŭllĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ tằ eidŭ́llĭă
Vocative	εἰδῠ́λλῐον eidŭ́llĭon	εἰδῠλλῐ́ω eidŭllĭ́ō	εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ eidŭ́llĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: ειδύλλιο (eidýllio)
• → Bulgarian: идилия (idilija)
• → Esperanto: idilio
• → Ido: idilio
• → Russian: иди́ллия (idíllija)
  • → Kazakh: идиллия (ıydıyllıya)
  • → Yiddish: אידיליע (idilye)
• → Latin: īdyllium
  • Catalan: idil·li
  • → Czech: idyla
  • → Danish: idyl
  • → English: idyll
  • French: idylle
  • Galician: idilio
  • → German: Idyll
  • → Finnish: idylli
  • → Polish: idylla
  • Portuguese: idílio
  • → Slovene: idila
  • Spanish: idilio
  • → Swedish: idyll

Further reading

• “εἰδύλλιον” in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• εἰδύλλιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “εἰδύλλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press