παιωνία

See also: Παιονία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• παιονίη (paioníē) — Epic

Etymology

Substantivized feminine form of Παιώνιος (Paiṓnios, “Paeonian, medicinal, healing”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.ɔː.ní.aː/ → /pɛ.oˈni.a/ → /pe.oˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.ɔː.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛ.oˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛ.oˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.oˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.oˈni.a/

Noun

παιωνίᾱ • (paiōníā) f (genitive παιωνίᾱς); first declension

1. peony (Paeonia officinalis, Paeonia mascula)

   Synonyms: γλυκυσίδη (glukusídē), ὀρόβαξ (oróbax)

Declension

First declension of ἡ παιωνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς παιωνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ παιωνῐ́ᾱ hē paiōníā	τὼ παιωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ paiōníā	αἱ παιωνῐ́αι hai paiōníai
Genitive	τῆς παιωνῐ́ᾱς tês paiōníās	τοῖν παιωνῐ́αιν toîn paiōníain	τῶν παιωνῐῶν tôn paiōniôn
Dative	τῇ παιωνῐ́ᾳ têi paiōníāi	τοῖν παιωνῐ́αιν toîn paiōníain	ταῖς παιωνῐ́αις taîs paiōníais
Accusative	τὴν παιωνῐ́ᾱν tḕn paiōníān	τὼ παιωνῐ́ᾱ tṑ paiōníā	τᾱ̀ς παιωνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s paiōníās
Vocative	παιωνῐ́ᾱ paiōníā	παιωνῐ́ᾱ paiōníā	παιωνῐ́αι paiōníai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: παιωνία (paionía)
• → Latin: paeonia (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• παιωνία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• παιωνία - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “παιωνία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press