τραπέζιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tra.péz.di.on/ → /traˈpe.zi.on/ → /traˈpe.zi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tra.péz.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /traˈpe.zi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /traˈpe.zi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /traˈpe.zi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /traˈpe.zi.on/

Noun

τρᾰπέζῐον • (trapézion) n (genitive τρᾰπεζίου); second declension

1. small table
2. table of a money-changer
3. (geometry) trapezium

Declension

Second declension of τὸ τρᾰπέζῐον; τοῦ τρᾰπεζῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ τρᾰπέζῐον tò trapézion	τὼ τρᾰπεζῐ́ω tṑ trapezíō	τᾰ̀ τρᾰπέζῐᾰ tà trapézia
Genitive	τοῦ τρᾰπεζῐ́ου toû trapezíou	τοῖν τρᾰπεζῐ́οιν toîn trapezíoin	τῶν τρᾰπεζῐ́ων tôn trapezíōn
Dative	τῷ τρᾰπεζῐ́ῳ tôi trapezíōi	τοῖν τρᾰπεζῐ́οιν toîn trapezíoin	τοῖς τρᾰπεζῐ́οις toîs trapezíois
Accusative	τὸ τρᾰπέζῐον tò trapézion	τὼ τρᾰπεζῐ́ω tṑ trapezíō	τᾰ̀ τρᾰπέζῐᾰ tà trapézia
Vocative	τρᾰπέζῐον trapézion	τρᾰπεζῐ́ω trapezíō	τρᾰπέζῐᾰ trapézia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: τραπέζι (trapézi)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܲܪܦܹܙܝܘܿܢ (ṭarpēzyōn)
• → Latin: trapezium (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• τραπέζιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “τραπέζιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “τραπέζιον”, 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.
  • trapezium idem, page 890.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion). Doublet of τραπέζι (trapézi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traˈpe.zi.on/

Noun

τραπέζιον • (trapézion) n

1. Katharevousa form of τραπέζι (trapézi)