ἄπιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same substrate root of ἄπῐον (ápĭon, “pear”) and Latin pirum (“pear”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ἄπῐος • (ápĭos) m (genitive ἀπῐ́ου); second declension

1. pear tree (Pyrus communis)
2. kind of spurge (Euphorbia apios)

   Synonyms: ἰσχᾰ́ς (iskhắs), χᾰμαιρᾰ́φᾰνος (khămairắphănos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄπῐος; τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄπῐος ho ápĭos	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apĭ́ō	οἱ ἄπῐοι hoi ápĭoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου toû apĭ́ou	τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν toîn apĭ́oin	τῶν ἀπῐ́ων tôn apĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ἀπῐ́ῳ tôi apĭ́ōi	τοῖν ἀπῐ́οιν toîn apĭ́oin	τοῖς ἀπῐ́οις toîs apĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸν ἄπῐον tòn ápĭon	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apĭ́ō	τοὺς ἀπῐ́ους toùs apĭ́ous
Vocative	ἄπῐε ápĭe	ἀπῐ́ω apĭ́ō	ἄπῐοι ápĭoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἄπιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄπιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄπιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἄπιος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011