κίων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱiHwon-, whence also Old Armenian սիւն (siwn, “column, pillar”). No other cognates survive.

Pronunciation

Noun

κῑ́ων • (kī́ōn) m or f (genitive κῑ́ονος); third declension

1. pillar, column
   • κίων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, pillar of the sky, Atlas.
2. a columnar gravestone
3. the uvula
4. the division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose
5. a type of meteor
6. a type of wart

Declension

Further reading

• “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κίων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κίων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • pillar idem, page 613.
  • post idem, page 629.