πορνεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /por.nêː.on/ → /porˈni.on/ → /porˈni.on/

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

Noun

πορνεῖον • (porneîon) n (genitive πορνείου); second declension

1. brothel, whorehouse, bordello

Declension

Second declension of τὸ πορνεῖον; τοῦ πορνείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πορνεῖον tò porneîon	τὼ πορνείω tṑ porneíō	τᾰ̀ πορνεῖᾰ tà porneîa
Genitive	τοῦ πορνείου toû porneíou	τοῖν πορνείοιν toîn porneíoin	τῶν πορνείων tôn porneíōn
Dative	τῷ πορνείῳ tôi porneíōi	τοῖν πορνείοιν toîn porneíoin	τοῖς πορνείοις toîs porneíois
Accusative	τὸ πορνεῖον tò porneîon	τὼ πορνείω tṑ porneíō	τᾰ̀ πορνεῖᾰ tà porneîa
Vocative	πορνεῖον porneîon	πορνείω porneíō	πορνεῖᾰ porneîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πορνείο (porneío)

Further reading

• “πορνεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πορνεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πορνεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brothel idem, page 101.