πεδίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ped-, and related to πούς (poús, “foot”). Compare πέδον (pédon, “soil, ground”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.dí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /peˈdi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /peˈði.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /peˈði.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /peˈði.on/
Noun
πεδίον • (pedíon) n (genitive πεδίου); second declension
Usage notes
The line in the Lysistrata uses this term in an innuendo (wordplay on its usual meaning of "plain") to refer to a female's genitals.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ πεδῐ́ον tò pedíon |
τὼ πεδῐ́ω tṑ pedíō |
τᾰ̀ πεδῐ́ᾰ tà pedía | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πεδῐ́ου toû pedíou |
τοῖν πεδῐ́οιν toîn pedíoin |
τῶν πεδῐ́ων tôn pedíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πεδῐ́ῳ tôi pedíōi |
τοῖν πεδῐ́οιν toîn pedíoin |
τοῖς πεδῐ́οις toîs pedíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ πεδῐ́ον tò pedíon |
τὼ πεδῐ́ω tṑ pedíō |
τᾰ̀ πεδῐ́ᾰ tà pedía | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πεδῐ́ον pedíon |
πεδῐ́ω pedíō |
πεδῐ́ᾰ pedía | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | πεδῐ́ον pedíon |
πεδῐ́ω pedíō |
πεδῐ́ᾰ pedía | ||||||||||
| Genitive | πεδῐ́ου / πεδῐοῖο / πεδῐ́οιο / πεδῐόο / πεδῐ́οο pedíou / pedioîo / pedíoio / pedióo / pedíoo |
πεδῐ́οιῐν pedíoiin |
πεδῐ́ων pedíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | πεδῐ́ῳ pedíōi |
πεδῐ́οιῐν pedíoiin |
πεδῐ́οισῐ / πεδῐ́οισῐν / πεδῐ́οις pedíoisi(n) / pedíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | πεδῐ́ον pedíon |
πεδῐ́ω pedíō |
πεδῐ́ᾰ pedía | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πεδῐ́ον pedíon |
πεδῐ́ω pedíō |
πεδῐ́ᾰ pedía | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Further reading
- “πεδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πεδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πεδίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πεδίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πεδίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πεδίον”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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