λύκιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from Λυκία (Lukía, “Lycia”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), because this plant grows mainly in Cappadocia and Lycia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lý.ki.on/ → /ˈly.ci.on/ → /ˈli.ci.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lý.ki.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ci.on/

Noun

λύκῐον • (lúkion) n (genitive λῠκίου); second declension

1. dyer's buckthorn (Rhamnus saxatilis)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ λῠ́κῐον; τοῦ λῠκῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῠ́κῐον tò lúkion	τὼ λῠκῐ́ω tṑ lukíō	τᾰ̀ λῠ́κῐᾰ tà lúkia
Genitive	τοῦ λῠκῐ́ου toû lukíou	τοῖν λῠκῐ́οιν toîn lukíoin	τῶν λῠκῐ́ων tôn lukíōn
Dative	τῷ λῠκῐ́ῳ tôi lukíōi	τοῖν λῠκῐ́οιν toîn lukíoin	τοῖς λῠκῐ́οις toîs lukíois
Accusative	τὸ λῠ́κῐον tò lúkion	τὼ λῠκῐ́ω tṑ lukíō	τᾰ̀ λῠ́κῐᾰ tà lúkia
Vocative	λῠ́κῐον lúkion	λῠκῐ́ω lukíō	λῠ́κῐᾰ lúkia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Lycium

Further reading

• “λύκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λύκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN