Παιάν

See also: παιάν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Παιήων (Paiḗōn) — Epic
• Παιών (Paiṓn) — Attic, Ionic

Etymology

Uncertain; cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 (pa-ja-wo-ne).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.ǎːn/ → /pɛˈan/ → /peˈan/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.ǎːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛˈan/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛˈan/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈan/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈan/

Proper noun

Παιᾱ́ν • (Paiā́n) m (genitive Παιᾶνος); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Paean; in Greek mythology the physician of the gods.

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Παιᾱ́ν; τοῦ Παιᾶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Παιᾱ́ν ho Paiā́n
Genitive	τοῦ Παιᾶνος toû Paiânos
Dative	τῷ Παιᾶνῐ tôi Paiâni
Accusative	τὸν Παιᾶνᾰ tòn Paiâna
Vocative	Παιᾱ́ν Paiā́n
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• Παιάν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “Παιάν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Παιάν”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “Παιάν”, 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, page 1,019