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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to Latin viola, both from a common (unknown) Mediterranean substrate. Originally *ϝίον (*wíon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /í.on/ → /ˈi.on/ → /ˈi.on/
Noun
ῐ̓́ον • (íon) m (genitive ῐ̓́ου); second declension
- violet, namely sweet violet (Viola odorata)
- synonym of κρίνον (krínon, “white lily”)
- any flower
- (Koine) a precious stone of dark colour
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἴον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 594
Further reading
- “ἴον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἴον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἴον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἴον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter