κυδώνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ellipsis of μῆλον Κυδώνιον (mêlon Kudṓnion, literally “Cydonian apple”), which was also compounded as μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.dɔ̌ː.ni.on/ → /cyˈðo.ni.on/ → /ciˈðo.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.dɔ̌ː.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈdo.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈðo.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈðo.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈðo.ni.on/

Noun

κῠδώνῐον • (kudṓnion) n (genitive κῠδωνίου); second declension

1. quince (fruit)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κῠδώνῐον; τοῦ κῠδωνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῠδώνῐον tò kudṓnion	τὼ κῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ kudōníō	τᾰ̀ κῠδώνῐᾰ tà kudṓnia
Genitive	τοῦ κῠδωνῐ́ου toû kudōníou	τοῖν κῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn kudōníoin	τῶν κῠδωνῐ́ων tôn kudōníōn
Dative	τῷ κῠδωνῐ́ῳ tôi kudōníōi	τοῖν κῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn kudōníoin	τοῖς κῠδωνῐ́οις toîs kudōníois
Accusative	τὸ κῠδώνῐον tò kudṓnion	τὼ κῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ kudōníō	τᾰ̀ κῠδώνῐᾰ tà kudṓnia
Vocative	κῠδώνῐον kudṓnion	κῠδωνῐ́ω kudōníō	κῠδώνῐᾰ kudṓnia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κυδώνι (kydóni)
• Latin: cotōneum (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• κυδώνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κυδώνιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “κυδώνιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011