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-ίων
-ίων
Ancient Greek
Suffix
-ίων • (-íōn)
- (chiefly Epic) Suffix added to father's name that forms masculine patronymic, meaning "son of"
- Πηλεύς > Πηλεΐων
- Pēleús > Pēleḯōn
- Peleus > son of Peleus
- Πηλεύς > Πηλεΐων
Inflection
Third declension of -ίων; -ίωνος
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -ίων | -ίωνε | -ίωνες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | -ίωνος | -ιώνοιν | -ιώνων | ||||||||||
| Dative | -ίωνῐ | -ιώνοιν | -ίωσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | -ίωνᾰ | -ίωνε | -ίωνᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | -ίων | -ίωνε | -ίωνες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Third declension of -ίων; -ῑ́ονος
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -ίων | -ῑ́ονε | -ῑ́ονες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | -ῑ́ονος | -ῑόνοιν | -ῑόνων | ||||||||||
| Dative | -ῑ́ονῐ | -ῑόνοιν | -ῑ́οσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | -ῑ́ονᾰ | -ῑ́ονε | -ῑ́ονᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | -ῖον | -ῑ́ονε | -ῑ́ονες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- -ίδης (-ídēs)
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Ancient_Greek_words_suffixed_with_-%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BD'>Ancient Greek words suffixed with -ίων</a>
Related terms
- -ιώνη (-iṓnē)
- -ῑ́νη (-ī́nē)
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 845
Suffix
-ίων • (-íōn)
- Suffix added to some adjectival stems to form a comparative adjective: -er
- ἡδύς > ἡδῑ́ων
- hēdús > hēdī́ōn
- sweet > sweeter
- ἡδύς > ἡδῑ́ων
References
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 318