ὠτίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From οὖς (oûs) +‎ -ίον (-íon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔː.tí.on/ → /oˈti.on/ → /oˈti.on/

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

Noun

ὠτίον • (ōtíon) n (genitive ὠτίου); second declension

1. diminutive of οὖς (oûs, “ear”) (often without any particular diminutive meaning)
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 22:51:

     ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν, Ἐᾶτε ἕως τούτου. καὶ ἁψάμενος τοῦ ὠτίου αὐτοῦ, ἰάσατο αὐτόν.

     apokritheìs dè ho Iēsoûs eîpen, Eâte héōs toútou. kaì hapsámenos toû ōtíou autoû, iásato autón.

     • Translation by KJV

       And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ὠτῐ́ον; τοῦ ὠτῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὠτῐ́ον tò ōtíon	τὼ ὠτῐ́ω tṑ ōtíō	τᾰ̀ ὠτῐ́ᾰ tà ōtía
Genitive	τοῦ ὠτῐ́ου toû ōtíou	τοῖν ὠτῐ́οιν toîn ōtíoin	τῶν ὠτῐ́ων tôn ōtíōn
Dative	τῷ ὠτῐ́ῳ tôi ōtíōi	τοῖν ὠτῐ́οιν toîn ōtíoin	τοῖς ὠτῐ́οις toîs ōtíois
Accusative	τὸ ὠτῐ́ον tò ōtíon	τὼ ὠτῐ́ω tṑ ōtíō	τᾰ̀ ὠτῐ́ᾰ tà ōtía
Vocative	ὠτῐ́ον ōtíon	ὠτῐ́ω ōtíō	ὠτῐ́ᾰ ōtía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ἀφτίον (aphtíon)
  • Greek: αφτί (aftí)
  • Mariupol Greek: фты (fty)
• → Latin: ōtion

Further reading

• ὠτίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “ὠτίον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ὠτίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G5621 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible