ταμιεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ταμία (tamía, “housekeeper, conductress”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon, “instrumental noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ta.mi.êː.on/ → /ta.miˈi.on/ → /ta.miˈi.on/

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

Noun

τᾰμῐεῖον • (tămĭeîon) n (genitive τᾰμῐείου); second declension

1. treasury
2. magazine, storehouse
3. chamber, closet

Declension

Second declension of τὸ τᾰμῐεῖον; τοῦ τᾰμῐείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τᾰμῐεῖον tò tămĭeîon	τὼ τᾰμῐείω tṑ tămĭeíō	τᾰ̀ τᾰμῐεῖᾰ tằ tămĭeîă
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰμῐείου toû tămĭeíou	τοῖν τᾰμῐείοιν toîn tămĭeíoin	τῶν τᾰμῐείων tôn tămĭeíōn
Dative	τῷ τᾰμῐείῳ tôi tămĭeíōi	τοῖν τᾰμῐείοιν toîn tămĭeíoin	τοῖς τᾰμῐείοις toîs tămĭeíois
Accusative	τὸ τᾰμῐεῖον tò tămĭeîon	τὼ τᾰμῐείω tṑ tămĭeíō	τᾰ̀ τᾰμῐεῖᾰ tằ tămĭeîă
Vocative	τᾰμῐεῖον tămĭeîon	τᾰμῐείω tămĭeíō	τᾰμῐεῖᾰ tămĭeîă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ταμιεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ταμιεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ταμιεῖον”, 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.
  • coffer idem, page 141.
  • exchequer idem, page 289.
  • magazine idem, page 507.
  • store idem, page 820.
  • store house idem, page 820.
  • treasury idem, page 892.