πέδον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped- (the source of πούς (poús, “foot”)). Cognates include Sanskrit पद (padá, “step, footstep, footprint”), Old Norse fet (“step”), Old Armenian հետ (het, “footprint, track”), and Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pēdan).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.don/ → /ˈpe.ðon/ → /ˈpe.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.don/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ðon/

Noun

πέδον • (pédon) n (genitive πέδου); second declension

1. ground, earth

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πέδον; τοῦ πέδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέδον tò pédon	τὼ πέδω tṑ pédō	τᾰ̀ πέδᾰ tà péda
Genitive	τοῦ πέδου toû pédou	τοῖν πέδοιν toîn pédoin	τῶν πέδων tôn pédōn
Dative	τῷ πέδῳ tôi pédōi	τοῖν πέδοιν toîn pédoin	τοῖς πέδοις toîs pédois
Accusative	τὸ πέδον tò pédon	τὼ πέδω tṑ pédō	τᾰ̀ πέδᾰ tà péda
Vocative	πέδον pédon	πέδω pédō	πέδᾰ péda
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐπίπεδος (epípedos)
• πεδίον (pedíon)

Related terms

• δάπεδον (dápedon)

Further reading

• “πέδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέδον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέδον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πέδον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• πέδον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • country idem, page 178.
  • earth idem, page 259.
  • ground idem, page 375.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • soil idem, page 791.
• 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