κίων

See also: κιών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱiHwon-, whence also Old Armenian սիւն (siwn, “column, pillar”). No other cognates survive.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κῑ́ων • (kī́ōn) m or f (genitive κῑ́ονος); third declension

  1. pillar, column
    • κίων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, pillar of the sky, Atlas.
  2. a columnar gravestone
  3. the uvula
  4. the division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose
  5. a type of meteor
  6. a type of wart

Declension
Third declension of ὁ, ἡ κῑ́ων; τοῦ, τῆς κῑ́ονος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ κῑ́ων
ho, hē kī́ōn		 τὼ κῑ́ονε
tṑ kī́one		 οἱ, αἱ κῑ́ονες
hoi, hai kī́ones
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς κῑ́ονος
toû, tês kī́onos		 τοῖν κῑόνοιν
toîn kīónoin		 τῶν κῑόνων
tôn kīónōn
Dative τῷ, τῇ κῑ́ονῐ
tôi, têi kī́oni		 τοῖν κῑόνοιν
toîn kīónoin		 τοῖς, ταῖς κῑ́οσῐ / κῑ́οσῐν
toîs, taîs kī́osi(n)
Accusative τὸν, τὴν κῑ́ονᾰ
tòn, tḕn kī́ona		 τὼ κῑ́ονε
tṑ kī́one		 τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῑ́ονᾰς
toùs, tā̀s kī́onas
Vocative κῖον
kîon		 κῑ́ονε
kī́one		 κῑ́ονες
kī́ones
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κίων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “κίων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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