νικύλεον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Neumann, from Pre-Greek. He connects it with the Linear B sign 𐀛 (ni), which looks like the branch of a fig-tree. In a later article, he further connects Egyptian nqꜥwt (“figs”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ni.ký.le.on/ → /niˈcy.le.on/ → /niˈci.le.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ni.ký.le.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /niˈky.le.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /niˈcy.le.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /niˈcy.le.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈci.le.on/

Noun

νικύλεον • (nikúleon) n (genitive νικυλέου); second declension

1. A kind of fig found in Crete
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.76f:

     Ἑρμῶναξ δ’ ἐν Γλώτταις Κρητικαῖς σύκων γένη ἀναγράφει ἁμάδεα καὶ νικύλεα.

     Hermônax d’ en Glṓttais Krētikaîs súkōn génē anagráphei hamádea kaì nikúlea.

     Hermonax in his 'Cretan Languages' lists as species of figs the hamadea and the nikulea.

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ νικύλεον; τοῦ νικυλέου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νικύλεον tò nikúleon	τὼ νικυλέω tṑ nikuléō	τᾰ̀ νικύλεᾰ tà nikúlea
Genitive	τοῦ νικυλέου toû nikuléou	τοῖν νικυλέοιν toîn nikuléoin	τῶν νικυλέων tôn nikuléōn
Dative	τῷ νικυλέῳ tôi nikuléōi	τοῖν νικυλέοιν toîn nikuléoin	τοῖς νικυλέοις toîs nikuléois
Accusative	τὸ νικύλεον tò nikúleon	τὼ νικυλέω tṑ nikuléō	τᾰ̀ νικύλεᾰ tà nikúlea
Vocative	νικύλεον nikúleon	νικυλέω nikuléō	νικύλεᾰ nikúlea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

See also

• σῦκον (sûkon)

Further reading

• νικύλεον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• “νικύλεον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press