πορνεῖον
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”) + -εῖον (-eîon).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /por.nêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /porˈni.on/
Noun
[edit]πορνεῖον • (porneîon) n (genitive πορνείου); second declension
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πορνεῖον tò porneîon |
τὼ πορνείω tṑ porneíō |
τᾰ̀ πορνεῖᾰ tà porneîa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πορνείου toû porneíou |
τοῖν πορνείοιν toîn porneíoin |
τῶν πορνείων tôn porneíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πορνείῳ tôi porneíōi |
τοῖν πορνείοιν toîn porneíoin |
τοῖς πορνείοις toîs porneíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πορνεῖον tò porneîon |
τὼ πορνείω tṑ porneíō |
τᾰ̀ πορνεῖᾰ tà porneîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | πορνεῖον porneîon |
πορνείω porneíō |
πορνεῖᾰ porneîa | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- Greek: πορνείο (porneío)
Further reading
[edit]- “πορνεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πορνεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πορνεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- brothel idem, page 101.
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -εῖον
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the second declension
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