σιτώνιον
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From σῑτώνης (sītṓnēs, “public buyer of corn”) + -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /siː.tɔ̌ː.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈto.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈto.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈto.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈto.ni.on/
Noun
[edit]σῑτώνῐον • (sītṓnion) n (genitive σῑτωνῐ́ου); second declension
- public granary, storehouse or wheat-fund
- money for the purchase of corn, as part of a soldier's pay
- (economics) name of a tax, probably levied to provide corn money
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σῑτώνῐον tò sītṓnion |
τὼ σῑτωνῐ́ω tṑ sītōníō |
τᾰ̀ σῑτώνῐᾰ tà sītṓnia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σῑτωνῐ́ου toû sītōníou |
τοῖν σῑτωνῐ́οιν toîn sītōníoin |
τῶν σῑτωνῐ́ων tôn sītōníōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σῑτωνῐ́ῳ tôi sītōníōi |
τοῖν σῑτωνῐ́οιν toîn sītōníoin |
τοῖς σῑτωνῐ́οις toîs sītōníois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σῑτώνῐον tò sītṓnion |
τὼ σῑτωνῐ́ω tṑ sītōníō |
τᾰ̀ σῑτώνῐᾰ tà sītṓnia | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῑτώνῐον sītṓnion |
σῑτωνῐ́ω sītōníō |
σῑτώνῐᾰ sītṓnia | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “σιτώνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σιτώνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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