μηλοκυδώνιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + Κυδώνιος (Kudṓnios, “Cydonian”), from Κυδωνία (Kudōnía, “Cydonia”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.lo.ky.dɔ̌ː.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝.lo.kyˈdo.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mi.lo.cyˈðo.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mi.lo.cyˈðo.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mi.lo.ciˈðo.ni.on/
Noun
μηλοκῠδώνῐον • (mēlokudṓnion) n (genitive μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ου); second declension
- quince (Cydonia oblonga)
- Synonym: χρῡσόμηλον (khrūsómēlon)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μηλοκῠδώνῐον tò mēlokudṓnion |
τὼ μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ mēlokudōníō |
τᾰ̀ μηλοκῠδώνῐᾰ tà mēlokudṓnia | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ου toû mēlokudōníou |
τοῖν μηλοκῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn mēlokudōníoin |
τῶν μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ων tôn mēlokudōníōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ῳ tôi mēlokudōníōi |
τοῖν μηλοκῠδωνῐ́οιν toîn mēlokudōníoin |
τοῖς μηλοκῠδωνῐ́οις toîs mēlokudōníois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μηλοκῠδώνῐον tò mēlokudṓnion |
τὼ μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ω tṑ mēlokudōníō |
τᾰ̀ μηλοκῠδώνῐᾰ tà mēlokudṓnia | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μηλοκῠδώνῐον mēlokudṓnion |
μηλοκῠδωνῐ́ω mēlokudōníō |
μηλοκῠδώνῐᾰ mēlokudṓnia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: mālum cotōneum
Further reading
- “μηλοκυδώνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μηλοκυδώνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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