κίων

See also: κιών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱiHwon-, whence also Old Armenian սիւն (siwn, “column, pillar”). No other cognates survive.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kǐː.ɔːn/ → /ˈci.on/ → /ˈci.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǐː.ɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.on/

Noun

κῑ́ων • (kī́ōn) m or f (genitive κῑ́ονος); third declension

1. pillar, column
   • κίων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, pillar of the sky, Atlas.
2. a columnar gravestone
3. the uvula
4. the division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose
5. a type of meteor
6. a type of wart

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ κῑ́ων; τοῦ, τῆς κῑ́ονος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κῑ́ων ho, hē kī́ōn	τὼ κῑ́ονε tṑ kī́one	οἱ, αἱ κῑ́ονες hoi, hai kī́ones
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κῑ́ονος toû, tês kī́onos	τοῖν κῑόνοιν toîn kīónoin	τῶν κῑόνων tôn kīónōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κῑ́ονῐ tôi, têi kī́oni	τοῖν κῑόνοιν toîn kīónoin	τοῖς, ταῖς κῑ́οσῐ / κῑ́οσῐν toîs, taîs kī́osi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κῑ́ονᾰ tòn, tḕn kī́ona	τὼ κῑ́ονε tṑ kī́one	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῑ́ονᾰς toùs, tā̀s kī́onas
Vocative	κῖον kîon	κῑ́ονε kī́one	κῑ́ονες kī́ones
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κίων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κίων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • pillar idem, page 613.
  • post idem, page 629.