κυδώνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ellipsis of μῆλον Κυδώνιον (mêlon Kudṓnion, literally “Cydonian apple”), which was also compounded as μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.dɔ̌ː.ni.on/ → /cyˈðo.ni.on/ → /ciˈðo.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.dɔ̌ː.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈdo.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈðo.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈðo.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈðo.ni.on/

Noun

κῠδώνῐον • (kŭdṓnĭon) n (genitive κῠδωνίου); second declension

1. quince (fruit)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κῠδώνῐον; τοῦ κῠδωνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῠδώνῐον tò kŭdṓnĭon	τὼ κῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ kŭdōnĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κῠδώνῐᾰ tằ kŭdṓnĭă
Genitive	τοῦ κῠδωνῐ́ου toû kŭdōnĭ́ou	τοῖν κῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn kŭdōnĭ́oin	τῶν κῠδωνῐ́ων tôn kŭdōnĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κῠδωνῐ́ῳ tōî kŭdōnĭ́ōi	τοῖν κῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn kŭdōnĭ́oin	τοῖς κῠδωνῐ́οις toîs kŭdōnĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κῠδώνῐον tò kŭdṓnĭon	τὼ κῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ kŭdōnĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κῠδώνῐᾰ tằ kŭdṓnĭă
Vocative	κῠδώνῐον kŭdṓnĭon	κῠδωνῐ́ω kŭdōnĭ́ō	κῠδώνῐᾰ kŭdṓnĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κυδώνι (kydóni)
• → Latin: cotōneum (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Slavic: *kъduňa (see there for further descendants)
• →? Proto-Slavic: *dyňa (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• κυδώνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κυδώνιον 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
• κυδώνιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011