πέπων
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *pékʷonts (“cooking, ripening”); related to πέσσω (péssō, “to soften, ripen”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.pɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.pon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.pon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.pon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.pon/
Adjective
[edit]πέπων • (pépōn) m or f (neuter πέπον); third declension
- ripe, softened (of fruit)
- (figurative) good, sweet, kind (when addressing a person)
- (figurative, derogatory) weak, cowardly
Usage notes
[edit]The two figurative senses are the only ones found in Homer.
Declension
[edit]Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | πέπων pépōn |
πέπον pépon |
πέπονε pépone |
πέπονε pépone |
πέπονες pépones |
πέπονᾰ pépona | ||||||||
Genitive | πέπονος péponos |
πέπονος péponos |
πεπόνοιν pepónoin |
πεπόνοιν pepónoin |
πεπόνων pepónōn |
πεπόνων pepónōn | ||||||||
Dative | πέπονῐ péponi |
πέπονῐ péponi |
πεπόνοιν pepónoin |
πεπόνοιν pepónoin |
πέποσῐ / πέποσῐν péposi(n) |
πέποσῐ / πέποσῐν péposi(n) | ||||||||
Accusative | πέπονᾰ pépona |
πέπον pépon |
πέπονε pépone |
πέπονε pépone |
πέπονᾰς péponas |
πέπονᾰ pépona | ||||||||
Vocative | πέπον pépon |
πέπον pépon |
πέπονε pépone |
πέπονε pépone |
πέπονες pépones |
πέπονᾰ pépona | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
πεπόνως pepónōs |
πεπονέστερος peponésteros |
πεπονέστᾰτος peponéstatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn)
- πεπόνιον n (pepónion) (Late Hellenistic diminutive)
- σίκυος πέπων (síkuos pépōn, “a kind of gourd or melon eaten when ripe”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Albanian: pjep, pjepër
- → Latin: pepō, peponem (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pipun
Further reading
[edit]- “πέπων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέπων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πέπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
[edit]Noun
[edit]πέπων • (pépon) m (plural πέπονες)
- Katharevousa form of πεπόνι (pepóni, “melon”)
Synonyms
[edit]- see: πεπόνι n (pepóni)
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pekʷ-
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek adjectives
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek derogatory terms
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek masculine nouns
- Katharevousa
- el:Fruits