πολυπόδιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πολύπους (polúpous, “polypus”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.ly.pó.di.on/ → /po.lyˈpo.ði.on/ → /po.liˈpo.ði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.ly.pó.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈpo.di.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈpo.ði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /po.lyˈpo.ði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /po.liˈpo.ði.on/

Noun

πολῠπόδῐον • (polupódion) n (genitive πολῠποδῐ́ου); second declension

1. common polypody (Polypodium vulgare)

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πολῠπόδῐον tò polupódion	τὼ πολῠποδῐ́ω tṑ polupodíō	τᾰ̀ πολῠπόδῐᾰ tà polupódia
Genitive	τοῦ πολῠποδῐ́ου toû polupodíou	τοῖν πολῠποδῐ́οιν toîn polupodíoin	τῶν πολῠποδῐ́ων tôn polupodíōn
Dative	τῷ πολῠποδῐ́ῳ tôi polupodíōi	τοῖν πολῠποδῐ́οιν toîn polupodíoin	τοῖς πολῠποδῐ́οις toîs polupodíois
Accusative	τὸ πολῠπόδῐον tò polupódion	τὼ πολῠποδῐ́ω tṑ polupodíō	τᾰ̀ πολῠπόδῐᾰ tà polupódia
Vocative	πολῠπόδῐον polupódion	πολῠποδῐ́ω polupodíō	πολῠπόδῐᾰ polupódia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τὸ πολῠπόδῐον; τοῦ πολῠποδῐ́ου (Attic)

Descendants

• → Latin: polypodium
• → Translingual: Polypodium

Further reading

• “πολυπόδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πολυπόδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette