πεδίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ped-, and related to πούς (poús, “foot”). Compare πέδον (pédon, “soil, ground”).

Pronunciation

Noun

πεδίον • (pedíon) n (genitive πεδίου); second declension

1. open country, field, plain, flat
2. metatarsus
3. female genitals
   • the Lysistrata:

     νὴ μὰ Δία Βοιωτία, καλόν γ’ ἔχουσα τὸ πεδίον

Usage notes

The line in the Lysistrata uses this term in an innuendo (wordplay on its usual meaning of "plain") to refer to a female's genitals.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• → English: pedion, Pædion
• Greek: πεδίο (pedío)

Further reading

• “πεδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πεδίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πεδίον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πεδίον 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
• πεδίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πεδίον”, 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.
  • champaign idem, page 123.
  • heath idem, page 393.
  • plain idem, page 616.
  • plateau idem, page 618.
  • stretch idem, page 825.
  • tract idem, page 885.