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ᾠόν
ᾠόν
See also: ᾦον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
ᾠόν • (ōión) n (genitive ᾠοῦ); second declension
Usage notes
- Along with πτερόν (pterón), λουτρόν (loutrón), ζυγόν (zugón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón) this is one of the very few neuter nouns that have not a recessive accent.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ᾠόν | τὼ ᾠώ | τᾰ̀ ᾠᾰ́ | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾠοῦ | τοῖν ᾠοῖν | τῶν ᾠῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾠῷ | τοῖν ᾠοῖν | τοῖς ᾠοῖς | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ᾠόν | τὼ ᾠώ | τᾰ̀ ᾠᾰ́ | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾠόν | ᾠώ | ᾠᾰ́ | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Greek: αβγό n (avgó, “egg”)
References
- ᾠόν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ᾠόν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ᾠόν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “G5609”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- egg idem, page 263.