ἄπιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to Latin pirum (“pear”) and considered to be a Mediterranean substrate loanword of the form *(V)pis-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.pi.on/ → /ˈa.pi.on/ → /ˈa.pi.on/

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

Noun

ἄπῐον • (ápĭon) n (genitive ἀπίου); second declension

1. pear

   Synonym: ἀχράς (akhrás)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄπῐον; τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄπῐον tò ápĭon	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἄπῐᾰ tằ ápĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου toû apĭ́ou	τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν toîn apĭ́oin	τῶν ἀπῐ́ων tôn apĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ἀπῐ́ῳ tôi apĭ́ōi	τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν toîn apĭ́oin	τοῖς ἀπῐ́οις toîs apĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ἄπῐον tò ápĭon	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἄπῐᾰ tằ ápĭă
Vocative	ἄπῐον ápĭon	ἀπῐ́ω apĭ́ō	ἄπῐᾰ ápĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἄπιος (ápios)

Further reading

• “ἄπιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄπιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄπιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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