πόλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολιός (poliós, “grey”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.li.on/ → /ˈpo.li.on/ → /ˈpo.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/

Noun

πόλῐον • (pólĭon) n (genitive πολῐ́ου); second declension

1. felty germander (Teucrium polium)

   Synonyms: ἀχαιμενῐ́ς (akhaimenĭ́s), ἐβενῖτῐς (ebenîtĭs), τεύθρῐον (teúthrĭon)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πόλῐον; τοῦ πολῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πόλῐον tò pólĭon	τὼ πολῐ́ω tṑ polĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ πόλῐᾰ tằ pólĭă
Genitive	τοῦ πολῐ́ου toû polĭ́ou	τοῖν πολῐ́οιν toîn polĭ́oin	τῶν πολῐ́ων tôn polĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ πολῐ́ῳ tôi polĭ́ōi	τοῖν πολῐ́οιν toîn polĭ́oin	τοῖς πολῐ́οις toîs polĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ πόλῐον tò pólĭon	τὼ πολῐ́ω tṑ polĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ πόλῐᾰ tằ pólĭă
Vocative	πόλῐον pólĭon	πολῐ́ω polĭ́ō	πόλῐᾰ pólĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• τρῐπόλῐον (trĭpólĭon)

Descendants

• → Latin: polion

Further reading

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