ἄπιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to Latin pirum (“pear”) and considered to be a Mediterranean substrate loanword of the form *(V)pis-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /á.pi.on/ → /ˈa.pi.on/ → /ˈa.pi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.pi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.on/

Noun

ἄπῐον • (ápion) n (genitive ἀπίου); second declension

1. pear

   Synonym: ἀχράς (akhrás)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄπῐον; τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄπῐον tò ápion	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apíō	τᾰ̀ ἄπῐᾰ tà ápia
Genitive	τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου toû apíou	τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν toîn apíoin	τῶν ἀπῐ́ων tôn apíōn
Dative	τῷ ἀπῐ́ῳ tôi apíōi	τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν toîn apíoin	τοῖς ἀπῐ́οις toîs apíois
Accusative	τὸ ἄπῐον tò ápion	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apíō	τᾰ̀ ἄπῐᾰ tà ápia
Vocative	ἄπῐον ápion	ἀπῐ́ω apíō	ἄπῐᾰ ápia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• ἄπιος (ápios)

Further reading

• “ἄπιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄπιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄπιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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