ἐπιμήδιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐπι- (epi-) +‎ μήδιον (mḗdion, “kind of bellflower”), because of the parasitic nature of this plant.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pi.mɛ̌ː.di.on/ → /e.piˈmi.ði.on/ → /e.piˈmi.ði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pi.mɛ̌ː.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.piˈme̝.di.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈmi.ði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.piˈmi.ði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.piˈmi.ði.on/

Noun

ἐπῐμήδῐον • (epĭmḗdĭon) n (genitive ἐπῐμηδῐ́ου); second declension

1. unidentified plant, perhaps Epimedium alpinum

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ἐπῐμήδῐον; τοῦ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἐπῐμήδῐον tò epĭmḗdĭon	τὼ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω tṑ epĭmēdĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ tằ epĭmḗdĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ου toû epĭmēdĭ́ou	τοῖν ἐπῐμηδῐ́οιν toîn epĭmēdĭ́oin	τῶν ἐπῐμηδῐ́ων tôn epĭmēdĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ῳ tôi epĭmēdĭ́ōi	τοῖν ἐπῐμηδῐ́οιν toîn epĭmēdĭ́oin	τοῖς ἐπῐμηδῐ́οις toîs epĭmēdĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ἐπῐμήδῐον tò epĭmḗdĭon	τὼ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω tṑ epĭmēdĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ tằ epĭmḗdĭă
Vocative	ἐπῐμήδῐον epĭmḗdĭon	ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω epĭmēdĭ́ō	ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ epĭmḗdĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Epimedium

Further reading

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