κιχόριον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κιχώριον (kikhṓrion)

Etymology

From κίχορα (kíkhora) +‎ -ιον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ki.kʰó.ri.on/ → /ciˈxo.ri.on/ → /ciˈxo.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ki.kʰó.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kiˈkʰo.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈxo.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈxo.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈxo.ri.on/

Noun

κῐχόρῐον • (kikhórion) n (genitive κῐχορίου); second declension

1. chicory (Cichorium intybus)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κῐχόρῐον; τοῦ κῐχορῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῐχόρῐον tò kikhórion	τὼ κῐχορῐ́ω tṑ kikhoríō	τᾰ̀ κῐχόρῐᾰ tà kikhória
Genitive	τοῦ κῐχορῐ́ου toû kikhoríou	τοῖν κῐχορῐ́οιν toîn kikhoríoin	τῶν κῐχορῐ́ων tôn kikhoríōn
Dative	τῷ κῐχορῐ́ῳ tôi kikhoríōi	τοῖν κῐχορῐ́οιν toîn kikhoríoin	τοῖς κῐχορῐ́οις toîs kikhoríois
Accusative	τὸ κῐχόρῐον tò kikhórion	τὼ κῐχορῐ́ω tṑ kikhoríō	τᾰ̀ κῐχόρῐᾰ tà kikhória
Vocative	κῐχόρῐον kikhórion	κῐχορῐ́ω kikhoríō	κῐχόρῐᾰ kikhória
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κιχώριον (kichórion)
• Latin: cichorium (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• κιχόριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κιχόριον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κιχόριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press