Παίων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Folk etymology / Greek mythology derived the name from Paeon of Elis, the son of Endymion.[1] The Paionians' real origins are murkier and their language is poorly attested, with theories including Thracian, Illyrian, or native Greek.[2] More at Paeonia.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Παίων • (Paíōn) m (genitive Παίονος); third declension

  1. a Paionian
  2. an inhabitant of Paionia

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Παίων; τοῦ Παίονος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Παίων
ho Paíōn		 τὼ Παίονε
tṑ Paíone		 οἱ Παίονες
hoi Paíones
Genitive τοῦ Παίονος
toû Paíonos		 τοῖν Παιόνοιν
toîn Paiónoin		 τῶν Παιόνων
tôn Paiónōn
Dative τῷ Παίονῐ
tôi Paíoni		 τοῖν Παιόνοιν
toîn Paiónoin		 τοῖς Παίοσῐ / Παίοσῐν
toîs Paíosi(n)
Accusative τὸν Παίονᾰ
tòn Paíona		 τὼ Παίονε
tṑ Paíone		 τοὺς Παίονᾰς
toùs Paíonas
Vocative Παῖον
Paîon		 Παίονε
Paíone		 Παίονες
Paíones
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Παιονῐ́ᾱ (Paioníā)
  • Παιονῐκός (Paionikós)
  • Παιονῐ́ς (Paionís)

Descendants
  • Greek: Παίων (Paíon)
  • Latin: Paeōn

References
  • “Παίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
  • Παίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  1. Indices. Maps. (1913). United Kingdom: Macmillan and Company, limited, p. 115
  2. Susan Wise Bauer (2007). The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, p. 518
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