ἀρνίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἀρήν (arḗn, “lamb, sheep”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar.ní.on/ → /arˈni.on/ → /arˈni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar.ní.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /arˈni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /arˈni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /arˈni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /arˈni.on/

Noun

ἀρνίον • (arníon) n (genitive ἀρνίου); second declension

1. little ram, little lamb
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Diogeiton 21
   • 4th century BC, Eubulus, Collected Works 150.4
2. sheep-skin, fleece
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Dance 43

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἀρνῐ́ον; τοῦ ἀρνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀρνῐ́ον tò arníon	τὼ ἀρνῐ́ω tṑ arníō	τᾰ̀ ἀρνῐ́ᾰ tà arnía
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρνῐ́ου toû arníou	τοῖν ἀρνῐ́οιν toîn arníoin	τῶν ἀρνῐ́ων tôn arníōn
Dative	τῷ ἀρνῐ́ῳ tôi arníōi	τοῖν ἀρνῐ́οιν toîn arníoin	τοῖς ἀρνῐ́οις toîs arníois
Accusative	τὸ ἀρνῐ́ον tò arníon	τὼ ἀρνῐ́ω tṑ arníō	τᾰ̀ ἀρνῐ́ᾰ tà arnía
Vocative	ἀρνῐ́ον arníon	ἀρνῐ́ω arníō	ἀρνῐ́ᾰ arnía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ἀρνίν (arnín)
  • Greek: αρνί (arní)
  • Mariupol Greek: арны́ (arný)

Further reading

• “ἀρνίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀρνίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀρνίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρνίον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G721 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 474
• “ἀρνίον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011