κυμάτιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῦμᾰ (kûma) +‎ -ῐον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kyː.má.ti.on/ → /cyˈma.ti.on/ → /ciˈma.ti.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kyː.má.ti.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈma.ti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈma.ti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈma.ti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈma.ti.on/

Noun

κῡμᾰ́τῐον • (kūmátion) n (genitive κῡμᾰτῐ́ου); second declension

1. a small cyma
   • Inscriptiones Graecae, 160 37
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 25.11.24
   1. the volute of the Ionic capital
      • Vitruvius 4.1

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῡμᾰ́τῐον; τοῦ κῡμᾰτῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῡμᾰ́τῐον tò kūmátion	τὼ κῡμᾰτῐ́ω tṑ kūmatíō	τᾰ̀ κῡμᾰ́τῐᾰ tà kūmátia
Genitive	τοῦ κῡμᾰτῐ́ου toû kūmatíou	τοῖν κῡμᾰτῐ́οιν toîn kūmatíoin	τῶν κῡμᾰτῐ́ων tôn kūmatíōn
Dative	τῷ κῡμᾰτῐ́ῳ tôi kūmatíōi	τοῖν κῡμᾰτῐ́οιν toîn kūmatíoin	τοῖς κῡμᾰτῐ́οις toîs kūmatíois
Accusative	τὸ κῡμᾰ́τῐον tò kūmátion	τὼ κῡμᾰτῐ́ω tṑ kūmatíō	τᾰ̀ κῡμᾰ́τῐᾰ tà kūmátia
Vocative	κῡμᾰ́τῐον kūmátion	κῡμᾰτῐ́ω kūmatíō	κῡμᾰ́τῐᾰ kūmátia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κυμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κυμάτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette