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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῐ̔στός (histós, “mast”) + -ῐ́ον (-íon, diminutive suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /his.tí.on/ → /isˈti.on/ → /isˈti.on/
Noun
ῐ̔στῐ́ον • (histíon) n (genitive ῐ̔στῐ́ου); second declension (Epic, Ionic, Attic, Doric)
- (usually in the plural) sail
800 BCE – 600 BCE,
Homer,
Odyssey 4.781:
- ἐν δ’ ἱστόν τε τίθεντο καὶ ἱστία νηῒ μελαίνῃ
- en d’ histón te títhento kaì histía nēï̀ melaínēi
- They put the mast and sails onto the black ship
Declension
References
Further reading
- ἱστίον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἱστίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press