Πήλιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πᾱ́λῐον (Pā́lion)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̌ː.li.on/ → /ˈpi.li.on/ → /ˈpi.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛ̌ː.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe̝.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.li.on/

Proper noun

Πήλῐον • (Pḗlion) n (genitive Πηλῐ́ου); second declension

1. Pelion, Thessaly, Greece

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Πήλῐον; τοῦ Πηλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ Πήλῐον tò Pḗlion
Genitive	τοῦ Πηλῐ́ου toû Pēlíou
Dative	τῷ Πηλῐ́ῳ tôi Pēlíōi
Accusative	τὸ Πήλῐον tò Pḗlion
Vocative	Πήλῐον Pḗlion
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Πηλῐᾰκός (Pēliakós)
• Πηλῐᾰ́ς (Pēliás)
• Πηλῐωτῐκός (Pēliōtikós)
• Πηλῐῶτῐς (Pēliôtis)

Descendants

• English: Pelion; Pelium
• Greek: Πήλιο (Pílio)
• Latin: Pelium

References

• “Πήλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Πήλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Πήλιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020