σίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The etymology is still unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.on/ → /ˈsi.on/ → /ˈsi.on/

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

Noun

σίον • (síon) n (genitive σίου); second declension

1. water parsnip (Sium suave)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σῐ́ον; τοῦ σῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῐ́ον tò sĭ́on	τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ sĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tằ sĭ́ă
Genitive	τοῦ σῐ́ου toû sĭ́ou	τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn sĭ́oin	τῶν σῐ́ων tôn sĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ σῐ́ῳ tôi sĭ́ōi	τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn sĭ́oin	τοῖς σῐ́οις toîs sĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ σῐ́ον tò sĭ́on	τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ sĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tằ sĭ́ă
Vocative	σῐ́ον sĭ́on	σῐ́ω sĭ́ō	σῐ́ᾰ sĭ́ă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sium

Further reading

• “σίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίον 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