σφονδύλιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σπονδύλιον (spondúlion)

Etymology

From σφόνδυλος (sphóndulos, “vertebra; whorl”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /spʰon.dý.li.on/ → /sɸonˈdy.li.on/ → /sfonˈdi.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /spʰon.dý.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /spʰonˈdy.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sɸonˈdy.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sfonˈdy.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sfonˈdi.li.on/

Noun

σφονδῠ́λῐον • (sphondúlion) n (genitive σφονδῠλῐ́ου); second declension

1. cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σφονδῠ́λῐον; τοῦ σφονδῠλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σφονδῠ́λῐον tò sphondúlion	τὼ σφονδῠλῐ́ω tṑ sphondulíō	τᾰ̀ σφονδῠ́λῐᾰ tà sphondúlia
Genitive	τοῦ σφονδῠλῐ́ου toû sphondulíou	τοῖν σφονδῠλῐ́οιν toîn sphondulíoin	τῶν σφονδῠλῐ́ων tôn sphondulíōn
Dative	τῷ σφονδῠλῐ́ῳ tôi sphondulíōi	τοῖν σφονδῠλῐ́οιν toîn sphondulíoin	τοῖς σφονδῠλῐ́οις toîs sphondulíois
Accusative	τὸ σφονδῠ́λῐον tò sphondúlion	τὼ σφονδῠλῐ́ω tṑ sphondulíō	τᾰ̀ σφονδῠ́λῐᾰ tà sphondúlia
Vocative	σφονδῠ́λῐον sphondúlion	σφονδῠλῐ́ω sphondulíō	σφονδῠ́λῐᾰ sphondúlia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: sphondylium

Further reading

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