ταμιεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ταμία (tamía, “housekeeper, conductress”) +‎ -εῖον (-eîon, “instrumental noun suffix”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ta.mi.êː.on/ → /ta.miˈi.on/ → /ta.miˈi.on/

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

Noun

τᾰμῐεῖον • (tamieîon) n (genitive τᾰμῐείου); second declension

1. treasury
2. magazine, storehouse
3. chamber, closet

Declension

Second declension of τὸ τᾰμῐεῖον; τοῦ τᾰμῐείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τᾰμῐεῖον tò tamieîon	τὼ τᾰμῐείω tṑ tamieíō	τᾰ̀ τᾰμῐεῖᾰ tà tamieîa
Genitive	τοῦ τᾰμῐείου toû tamieíou	τοῖν τᾰμῐείοιν toîn tamieíoin	τῶν τᾰμῐείων tôn tamieíōn
Dative	τῷ τᾰμῐείῳ tôi tamieíōi	τοῖν τᾰμῐείοιν toîn tamieíoin	τοῖς τᾰμῐείοις toîs tamieíois
Accusative	τὸ τᾰμῐεῖον tò tamieîon	τὼ τᾰμῐείω tṑ tamieíō	τᾰ̀ τᾰμῐεῖᾰ tà tamieîa
Vocative	τᾰμῐεῖον tamieîon	τᾰμῐείω tamieíō	τᾰμῐεῖᾰ tamieîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• ταμιεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ταμιεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ταμιεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • coffer idem, page 141.
  • exchequer idem, page 289.
  • magazine idem, page 507.
  • store idem, page 820.
  • store house idem, page 820.
  • treasury idem, page 892.