ἰνίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἴς (ís, “muscle of the body”) +‎ -ῐ́ον (-íon, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /iː.ní.on/ → /iˈni.on/ → /iˈni.on/

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

Noun

ἰ̄νῐ́ον • (īníon) n (genitive ἰ̄νῐ́ου); second declension

1. (anatomy) occipital bone

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ἰ̄νῐ́ον; τοῦ ἰ̄νῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἰ̄νῐ́ον tò īníon	τὼ ἰ̄νῐ́ω tṑ īníō	τᾰ̀ ἰ̄νῐ́ᾰ tà īnía
Genitive	τοῦ ἰ̄νῐ́ου toû īníou	τοῖν ἰ̄νῐ́οιν toîn īníoin	τῶν ἰ̄νῐ́ων tôn īníōn
Dative	τῷ ἰ̄νῐ́ῳ tôi īníōi	τοῖν ἰ̄νῐ́οιν toîn īníoin	τοῖς ἰ̄νῐ́οις toîs īníois
Accusative	τὸ ἰ̄νῐ́ον tò īníon	τὼ ἰ̄νῐ́ω tṑ īníō	τᾰ̀ ἰ̄νῐ́ᾰ tà īnía
Vocative	ἰ̄νῐ́ον īníon	ἰ̄νῐ́ω īníō	ἰ̄νῐ́ᾰ īnía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: inion

Further reading

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