ἔχιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἔχις (ékhis, “viper”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix), because of the resemblance of the fruit to the head of a snake.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /é.kʰi.on/ → /ˈe.çi.on/ → /ˈe.çi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /é.kʰi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈe.kʰi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.çi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.çi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.çi.on/

Noun

ἔχῐον • (ékhion) n (genitive ἐχῐ́ου); second declension

1. purple viper's bugloss (Echium plantagineum)

   Synonym: δωρίς (dōrís)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἔχῐον; τοῦ ἐχῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔχῐον tò ékhion	τὼ ἐχῐ́ω tṑ ekhíō	τᾰ̀ ἔχῐᾰ tà ékhia
Genitive	τοῦ ἐχῐ́ου toû ekhíou	τοῖν ἐχῐ́οιν toîn ekhíoin	τῶν ἐχῐ́ων tôn ekhíōn
Dative	τῷ ἐχῐ́ῳ tôi ekhíōi	τοῖν ἐχῐ́οιν toîn ekhíoin	τοῖς ἐχῐ́οις toîs ekhíois
Accusative	τὸ ἔχῐον tò ékhion	τὼ ἐχῐ́ω tṑ ekhíō	τᾰ̀ ἔχῐᾰ tà ékhia
Vocative	ἔχῐον ékhion	ἐχῐ́ω ekhíō	ἔχῐᾰ ékhia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Echium

Further reading

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