κειμήλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lay; to be laid up, to be stored”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /keː.mɛ̌ː.li.on/ → /ciˈmi.li.on/ → /ciˈmi.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /keː.mɛ̌ː.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kiˈme̝.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈmi.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈmi.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈmi.li.on/

Noun

κειμήλῐον • (keimḗlion) n (genitive κειμηλῐ́ου); second declension

1. Something stored or saved up, particularly:
   1. An heirloom, a family's property
   2. Something precious, a treasure
   3. (Christianity) A holy relic, a sacred relic

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κειμήλῐον; τοῦ κειμηλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κειμήλῐον tò keimḗlion	τὼ κειμηλῐ́ω tṑ keimēlíō	τᾰ̀ κειμήλῐᾰ tà keimḗlia
Genitive	τοῦ κειμηλῐ́ου toû keimēlíou	τοῖν κειμηλῐ́οιν toîn keimēlíoin	τῶν κειμηλῐ́ων tôn keimēlíōn
Dative	τῷ κειμηλῐ́ῳ tôi keimēlíōi	τοῖν κειμηλῐ́οιν toîn keimēlíoin	τοῖς κειμηλῐ́οις toîs keimēlíois
Accusative	τὸ κειμήλῐον tò keimḗlion	τὼ κειμηλῐ́ω tṑ keimēlíō	τᾰ̀ κειμήλῐᾰ tà keimḗlia
Vocative	κειμήλῐον keimḗlion	κειμηλῐ́ω keimēlíō	κειμήλῐᾰ keimḗlia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κειμήλιο (keimílio)

Further reading

• “κειμήλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κειμήλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κειμήλιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κειμήλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κειμήλιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • heirloom idem, page 395.
  • keepsake idem, page 468.
  • treasure idem, page 891.