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 • (epimḗdion) 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 epimḗdion	τὼ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω tṑ epimēdíō	τᾰ̀ ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ tà epimḗdia
Genitive	τοῦ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ου toû epimēdíou	τοῖν ἐπῐμηδῐ́οιν toîn epimēdíoin	τῶν ἐπῐμηδῐ́ων tôn epimēdíōn
Dative	τῷ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ῳ tôi epimēdíōi	τοῖν ἐπῐμηδῐ́οιν toîn epimēdíoin	τοῖς ἐπῐμηδῐ́οις toîs epimēdíois
Accusative	τὸ ἐπῐμήδῐον tò epimḗdion	τὼ ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω tṑ epimēdíō	τᾰ̀ ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ tà epimḗdia
Vocative	ἐπῐμήδῐον epimḗdion	ἐπῐμηδῐ́ω epimēdíō	ἐπῐμήδῐᾰ epimḗdia
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