παιών

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• παιάν (paián)
• παιήων (paiḗōn)

Etymology

Earlier *παιά-ϝων (*paiá-wōn) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 (pa-ja-wo-ne /⁠Paiāwonei⁠/)), related to παιάν (paián, “choral song, hymn, war song”), which see for more.

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/ → /pɛˈon/ → /peˈon/

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

Noun

παιών • (paiṓn) m (genitive παιῶνος); third declension

1. physician, healer
2. (prosody) paeon

Declension

Third declension of ὁ παιών; τοῦ παιῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ παιών ho paiṓn	τὼ παιῶνε tṑ paiône	οἱ παιῶνες hoi paiônes
Genitive	τοῦ παιῶνος toû paiônos	τοῖν παιώνοιν toîn paiṓnoin	τῶν παιώνων tôn paiṓnōn
Dative	τῷ παιῶνῐ tôi paiôni	τοῖν παιώνοιν toîn paiṓnoin	τοῖς παιῶσῐ / παιῶσῐν toîs paiôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν παιῶνᾰ tòn paiôna	τὼ παιῶνε tṑ paiône	τοὺς παιῶνᾰς toùs paiônas
Vocative	παιών paiṓn	παιῶνε paiône	παιῶνες paiônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Παιών (Paiṓn)
• παιωνίᾱ (paiōníā)
• παιωνίζω (paiōnízō)
• παιωνικός (paiōnikós)
• παιώνιος (paiṓnios)
• παιωνισμός (paiōnismós)

 

Descendants

• → Finnish: peoni
• → Latin: paeōn
  • → English: paeon
  • Italian: peone

Further reading

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