σίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The etymology is still unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.on/ → /ˈsi.on/ → /ˈsi.on/

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

Noun

σίον • (síon) n (genitive σίου); second declension

1. water parsnip (Sium suave)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σῐ́ον; τοῦ σῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῐ́ον tò síon	τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ síō	τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tà sía
Genitive	τοῦ σῐ́ου toû síou	τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn síoin	τῶν σῐ́ων tôn síōn
Dative	τῷ σῐ́ῳ tôi síōi	τοῖν σῐ́οιν toîn síoin	τοῖς σῐ́οις toîs síois
Accusative	τὸ σῐ́ον tò síon	τὼ σῐ́ω tṑ síō	τᾰ̀ σῐ́ᾰ tà sía
Vocative	σῐ́ον síon	σῐ́ω síō	σῐ́ᾰ sía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sium

Further reading

• “σίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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