ᾨδεῖον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɔːi̯.dêː.on/ → /oˈði.on/ → /oˈði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɔːi̯.dêː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /oˈdi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /oˈði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /oˈði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /oˈði.on/

Proper noun

ᾨδεῖον • (Ōideîon) n (genitive ᾨδείου); second declension

1. the Odeon or Odeum

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ᾨδεῖον; τοῦ ᾨδείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ᾨδεῖον tò Ōideîon	τὼ ᾨδείω tṑ Ōideíō	τᾰ̀ ᾨδεῖᾰ tà Ōideîa
Genitive	τοῦ ᾨδείου toû Ōideíou	τοῖν ᾨδείοιν toîn Ōideíoin	τῶν ᾨδείων tôn Ōideíōn
Dative	τῷ ᾨδείῳ tôi Ōideíōi	τοῖν ᾨδείοιν toîn Ōideíoin	τοῖς ᾨδείοις toîs Ōideíois
Accusative	τὸ ᾨδεῖον tò Ōideîon	τὼ ᾨδείω tṑ Ōideíō	τᾰ̀ ᾨδεῖᾰ tà Ōideîa
Vocative	ᾨδεῖον Ōideîon	ᾨδείω Ōideíō	ᾨδεῖᾰ Ōideîa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: Odeon, Odeum
• Greek: Ωδείο (Odeío)
• Latin: Ōdeum

References

• ᾨδεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018