σιμίκιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.mí.ki.on/ → /siˈmi.ci.on/ → /siˈmi.ci.on/

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

Noun

σῐμῐ́κῐον • (simíkion) n (genitive σῐμῐκῐ́ου); second declension

1. kind of musical instrument of thirty-five strings

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σῐμῐ́κῐον; τοῦ σῐμῐκῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῐμῐ́κῐον tò simíkion	τὼ σῐμῐκῐ́ω tṑ simikíō	τᾰ̀ σῐμῐ́κῐᾰ tà simíkia
Genitive	τοῦ σῐμῐκῐ́ου toû simikíou	τοῖν σῐμῐκῐ́οιν toîn simikíoin	τῶν σῐμῐκῐ́ων tôn simikíōn
Dative	τῷ σῐμῐκῐ́ῳ tôi simikíōi	τοῖν σῐμῐκῐ́οιν toîn simikíoin	τοῖς σῐμῐκῐ́οις toîs simikíois
Accusative	τὸ σῐμῐ́κῐον tò simíkion	τὼ σῐμῐκῐ́ω tṑ simikíō	τᾰ̀ σῐμῐ́κῐᾰ tà simíkia
Vocative	σῐμῐ́κῐον simíkion	σῐμῐκῐ́ω simikíō	σῐμῐ́κῐᾰ simíkia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σιμίκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σιμίκιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1332