Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sápon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sápon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sápon/

Noun

σάπων • ‎(sápōn) m ‎(genitive σάπωνος); third declension

1. soap
   • Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De Curatione Diuturnorum Morborum 2.13
   • Pliny the Elder, Natural History 28.12
   • Serenus Sammonicus 158

Inflection

Descendants

• Old Armenian: սապոն ‎(sapon)
• Georgian: საპონი ‎(saṗoni)

References

• σάπων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σάπων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• LSJ 8th edition
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1307

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σάπων ‎(sápōn, “soap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapo̞n/
• Hyphenation: σά‧πων

Noun

σάπων • ‎(sápon) m ‎(plural σάπωνες)

1. Katharevousa form of σαπούνι ‎(sapoúni, “soap”)