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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tra.péz.di.on/ → /traˈpe.zi.on/ → /traˈpe.zi.on/
Noun
τρᾰπέζῐον • (trăpézĭon) n (genitive τρᾰπεζίου); second declension
- small table
- table of a money-changer
- (geometry) trapezium
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- τραπέζιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “τραπέζιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “τραπέζιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion). Doublet of τραπέζι (trapézi).
Pronunciation
Noun
τραπέζιον • (trapézion) n
- Katharevousa form of τραπέζι (trapézi)