Ἴων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Compare Mycenaean Greek [script needed] (i-ja-wo-ne, “Ionians”), Egyptian ywnj ꜥꜣ (“Great Ionia”), both attested in the first half of 14th century BC.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /í.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.on/
Proper noun
Ἴων • (Íōn) m (genitive Ἴωνος); third declension
- Ion, the mythological ancestor of the Ionian people
- an Ancient Greek male name
Noun
Ἴων • (Íōn) m (genitive Ἴωνος); third declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Ἴων ho Íōn |
τὼ Ἴωνε tṑ Íōne |
οἱ Ἴωνες hoi Íōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Ἴωνος toû Íōnos |
τοῖν Ἰώνοιν toîn Iṓnoin |
τῶν Ἰώνων tôn Iṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Ἴωνῐ tôi Íōni |
τοῖν Ἰώνοιν toîn Iṓnoin |
τοῖς Ἴωσῐ / Ἴωσῐν toîs Íōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Ἴωνᾰ tòn Íōna |
τὼ Ἴωνε tṑ Íōne |
τοὺς Ἴωνᾰς toùs Íōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | Ἴων Íōn |
Ἴωνε Íōne |
Ἴωνες Íōnes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- Ἰᾰ́ς (Iás)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: Ίων (Íon)
- Latin: Iōn
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- Turkish: İyon
References
- “Ἴων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἴων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ἴων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
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