τριπόλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From of τρι- (tri-, three) +‎ πόλιον (pólion, “felty germander”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

τρῐπόλῐον • (tripólion) n (genitive τρῐπολῐ́ου); second declension

1. sea aster (Tripolium pannonicum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ τρῐπόλῐον; τοῦ τρῐπολῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τρῐπόλῐον tò tripólion	τὼ τρῐπολῐ́ω tṑ tripolíō	τᾰ̀ τρῐπόλῐᾰ tà tripólia
Genitive	τοῦ τρῐπολῐ́ου toû tripolíou	τοῖν τρῐπολῐ́οιν toîn tripolíoin	τῶν τρῐπολῐ́ων tôn tripolíōn
Dative	τῷ τρῐπολῐ́ῳ tôi tripolíōi	τοῖν τρῐπολῐ́οιν toîn tripolíoin	τοῖς τρῐπολῐ́οις toîs tripolíois
Accusative	τὸ τρῐπόλῐον tò tripólion	τὼ τρῐπολῐ́ω tṑ tripolíō	τᾰ̀ τρῐπόλῐᾰ tà tripólia
Vocative	τρῐπόλῐον tripólion	τρῐπολῐ́ω tripolíō	τρῐπόλῐᾰ tripólia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Tripolium

Further reading

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