Σόλων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The origin is Pre-Greek. A relation to σόλος (sólos) has been proposed.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /só.lɔːn/ → /ˈso.lon/ → /ˈso.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /só.lɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈso.lon/

Proper noun

Σόλων • (Sólōn) m (genitive Σόλωνος); third declension

1. Solon

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Σόλων; τοῦ Σόλωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Σόλων ho Sólōn
Genitive	τοῦ Σόλωνος toû Sólōnos
Dative	τῷ Σόλωνῐ tôi Sólōni
Accusative	τὸν Σόλωνᾰ tòn Sólōna
Vocative	Σόλων Sólōn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σολώνειος (Solṓneios)
• Σολώνῐον (Solṓnion)

Descendants

• Armenian: Սոլոն (Solon)
• Greek: Σόλων (Sólon), Σόλωνας (Sólonas)
• Italian: Solone
• Latin: Solōn
• Old Armenian: Սողոն (Sołon)
• Turkish: Solon

References

• “Σόλων”, 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 1,025
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Σόλων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette