ἄπιος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same substrate root of ἄπῐον (ápion, “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 • (ápios) m (genitive ἀπῐ́ου); second declension

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

   Synonyms: ἰσχᾰ́ς (iskhás), χᾰμαιρᾰ́φᾰνος (khamairáphanos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄπῐος; τοῦ ἀπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄπῐος ho ápios	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apíō	οἱ ἄπῐοι hoi ápioi
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	τὸν ἄπῐον tòn ápion	τὼ ἀπῐ́ω tṑ apíō	τοὺς ἀπῐ́ους toùs apíous
Vocative	ἄπῐε ápie	ἀπῐ́ω apíō	ἄπῐοι ápioi
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 (2006–2024)
• 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