σχολεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σχολή (skholḗ) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skʰo.lêː.on/ → /sxoˈli.on/ → /sxoˈli.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰo.lêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skʰoˈli.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sxoˈli.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sxoˈli.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sxoˈli.on/

Noun

σχολεῖον • (skholeîon) n (genitive σχολείου); second declension

1. school

Declension

Second declension of τὸ σχολεῖον; τοῦ σχολείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σχολεῖον tò skholeîon	τὼ σχολείω tṑ skholeíō	τᾰ̀ σχολεῖᾰ tà skholeîa
Genitive	τοῦ σχολείου toû skholeíou	τοῖν σχολείοιν toîn skholeíoin	τῶν σχολείων tôn skholeíōn
Dative	τῷ σχολείῳ tôi skholeíōi	τοῖν σχολείοιν toîn skholeíoin	τοῖς σχολείοις toîs skholeíois
Accusative	τὸ σχολεῖον tò skholeîon	τὼ σχολείω tṑ skholeíō	τᾰ̀ σχολεῖᾰ tà skholeîa
Vocative	σχολεῖον skholeîon	σχολείω skholeíō	σχολεῖᾰ skholeîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σχολείο (scholeío), σχολειό (scholeió)
  • → Aromanian: sculii, sculie, scolie, scolii

Further reading

• σχολεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σχολεῖον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “σχολεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press