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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + -ίδιον (-ídion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Attested with both ῡ and ῠ.
- IPA(key): /ikʰ.tʰy̌ː.di.on/ → /ixˈθy.ði.on/ → /ixˈθi.ði.on/
- IPA(key): /ikʰ.tʰý.di.on/ → /ixˈθy.ði.on/ → /ixˈθi.ði.on/
Noun
ἰχθύδῐον • (ikhthúdion) n (genitive ἰχθυδίου); second declension
- diminutive of ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”)
The Gospel of Mark 8:7:
- καὶ εἶχον ἰχθύδια ὀλίγα· καὶ εὐλογήσας εἶπε παραθεῖναι καὶ αὐτά.
- kaì eîkhon ikhthúdia olíga; kaì eulogḗsas eîpe paratheînai kaì autá.
- Translation by KJV
- And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
Inflection
Further reading
- ἰχθύδιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἰχθύδιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ἰχθύδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G2485 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible