σαύνιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σαυνίον (sauníon)

Etymology

The etymology of this word is unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sǎu̯.ni.on/ → /ˈsa.βni.on/ → /ˈsa.vni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sǎu̯.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.βni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.vni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.vni.on/

Noun

σαύνῐον • (saúnion) n (genitive σαυνῐ́ου); second declension

1. javelin

   Synonym: ἀκόντιον (akóntion)

2. (figuratively) membrum virile
3. Samnites

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σαύνῐον; τοῦ σαυνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σαύνῐον tò saúnion	τὼ σαυνῐ́ω tṑ sauníō	τᾰ̀ σαύνῐᾰ tà saúnia
Genitive	τοῦ σαυνῐ́ου toû sauníou	τοῖν σαυνῐ́οιν toîn sauníoin	τῶν σαυνῐ́ων tôn sauníōn
Dative	τῷ σαυνῐ́ῳ tôi sauníōi	τοῖν σαυνῐ́οιν toîn sauníoin	τοῖς σαυνῐ́οις toîs sauníois
Accusative	τὸ σαύνῐον tò saúnion	τὼ σαυνῐ́ω tṑ sauníō	τᾰ̀ σαύνῐᾰ tà saúnia
Vocative	σαύνῐον saúnion	σαυνῐ́ω sauníō	σαύνῐᾰ saúnia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σαυνιάζω (sauniázō)
• σαυνιαστής (sauniastḗs)

 

Further reading

• “σαύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σαύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σαύνιον 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
• Stuart-Smith, Jane, 2004, Phonetics and Philologyz: Sound Change in Italic, OUP Oxford