σχόλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σχολή (skholḗ, “learning, lecture”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skʰó.li.on/ → /ˈsxo.li.on/ → /ˈsxo.li.on/

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

Noun

σχόλῐον • (skhólion) n (genitive σχολῐ́ου); second declension

1. an interpretation, comment
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.7.3
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.31.6
   1. a short note, scholium
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Philosophies for Sale 33
2. a long tedious speech, lecture
   • Photios I of Constantinople
   • Hesychius Σ

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σχόλῐον; τοῦ σχολῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σχόλῐον tò skhólion	τὼ σχολῐ́ω tṑ skholíō	τᾰ̀ σχόλῐᾰ tà skhólia
Genitive	τοῦ σχολῐ́ου toû skholíou	τοῖν σχολῐ́οιν toîn skholíoin	τῶν σχολῐ́ων tôn skholíōn
Dative	τῷ σχολῐ́ῳ tôi skholíōi	τοῖν σχολῐ́οιν toîn skholíoin	τοῖς σχολῐ́οις toîs skholíois
Accusative	τὸ σχόλῐον tò skhólion	τὼ σχολῐ́ω tṑ skholíō	τᾰ̀ σχόλῐᾰ tà skhólia
Vocative	σχόλῐον skhólion	σχολῐ́ω skholíō	σχόλῐᾰ skhólia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σχολιάζω (skholiázō)
  • σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs)

Further reading

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