βαλλάντιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βαλάντιον (balántion)

Etymology

Unknown. Krahe thought it was a word from the northern Balkans, related to Latin follis (“bellows; purse, sack”). However, it is perhaps Pre-Greek because of the variation -λλ-/-λ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bal.lán.ti.on/ → /βalˈlan.ti.on/ → /vaˈlan.di.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bal.lán.ti.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /balˈlan.ti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βalˈlan.ti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /valˈlan.ti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vaˈlan.di.on/

Noun

βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐον • (ballántion) n (genitive βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ου); second declension

1. bag, pouch, purse

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐον; τοῦ βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐον tò ballántion	τὼ βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ω tṑ ballantíō	τᾰ̀ βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐᾰ tà ballántia
Genitive	τοῦ βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ου toû ballantíou	τοῖν βᾰλλᾰντῐ́οιν toîn ballantíoin	τῶν βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ων tôn ballantíōn
Dative	τῷ βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ῳ tôi ballantíōi	τοῖν βᾰλλᾰντῐ́οιν toîn ballantíoin	τοῖς βᾰλλᾰντῐ́οις toîs ballantíois
Accusative	τὸ βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐον tò ballántion	τὼ βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ω tṑ ballantíō	τᾰ̀ βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐᾰ tà ballántia
Vocative	βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐον ballántion	βᾰλλᾰντῐ́ω ballantíō	βᾰλλᾰ́ντῐᾰ ballántia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βαλλαντίδιον (ballantídion)
• βαλλαντιοτομέω (ballantiotoméō)
• βαλλαντιοτόμος (ballantiotómos)

 

Further reading

• “βαλλάντιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βαλλάντιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαλλάντιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN