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 • (keimḗlĭon) 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 keimḗlĭon	τὼ κειμηλῐ́ω tṑ keimēlĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κειμήλῐᾰ tằ keimḗlĭă
Genitive	τοῦ κειμηλῐ́ου toû keimēlĭ́ou	τοῖν κειμηλῐ́οιν toîn keimēlĭ́oin	τῶν κειμηλῐ́ων tôn keimēlĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ κειμηλῐ́ῳ tôi keimēlĭ́ōi	τοῖν κειμηλῐ́οιν toîn keimēlĭ́oin	τοῖς κειμηλῐ́οις toîs keimēlĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ κειμήλῐον tò keimḗlĭon	τὼ κειμηλῐ́ω tṑ keimēlĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ κειμήλῐᾰ tằ keimḗlĭă
Vocative	κειμήλῐον keimḗlĭon	κειμηλῐ́ω keimēlĭ́ō	κειμήλῐᾰ keimḗlĭă
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.