Σούνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sǔː.ni.on/ → /ˈsu.ni.on/ → /ˈsu.ni.on/

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

Proper noun

Σούνιον • (Soúnion) n (genitive Σουνίου); second declension

1. Cape Sunium, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Σούνῐον; τοῦ Σουνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ Σούνῐον tò Soúnion
Genitive	τοῦ Σουνῐ́ου toû Souníou
Dative	τῷ Σουνῐ́ῳ tôi Souníōi
Accusative	τὸ Σούνῐον tò Soúnion
Vocative	Σούνῐον Soúnion
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σουνῐᾰκός (Souniakós)
• Σουνῐᾰ́ρᾱτος (Souniárātos)
• Σουνῐᾰ́ς (Souniás)
• Σουνιέρᾱκος (Souniérākos)
• Σουνῐεύς (Sounieús)

Descendants

• Greek: Σούνιο (Soúnio)
• Latin: Sūnium

References

• “Σούνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
• Σούνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette