ἰνίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἴς (ís, “muscle of the body”) +‎ -ῐ́ον (-ĭ́on, 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 • (īnĭ́on) n (genitive ἰ̄νῐ́ου); second declension

1. (anatomy) occipital bone

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ῑ̓νῐ́ον; τοῦ ῑ̓νῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῑ̓νῐ́ον tò īnĭ́on	τὼ ῑ̓νῐ́ω tṑ īnĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̓νῐ́ᾰ tằ īnĭ́ă
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̓νῐ́ου toû īnĭ́ou	τοῖν ῑ̓νῐ́οιν toîn īnĭ́oin	τῶν ῑ̓νῐ́ων tôn īnĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̓νῐ́ῳ tôi īnĭ́ōi	τοῖν ῑ̓νῐ́οιν toîn īnĭ́oin	τοῖς ῑ̓νῐ́οις toîs īnĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ῑ̓νῐ́ον tò īnĭ́on	τὼ ῑ̓νῐ́ω tṑ īnĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̓νῐ́ᾰ tằ īnĭ́ă
Vocative	ῑ̓νῐ́ον īnĭ́on	ῑ̓νῐ́ω īnĭ́ō	ῑ̓νῐ́ᾰ īnĭ́ă
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