πέπων

From Proto-Indo-European *pékʷonts (“cooking, ripening”); related to πέσσω (péssō, “to soften, ripen”).

πέπων • (pépōn) m or f (neuter πέπον); third declension

1. ripe, softened (of fruit)
2. (figurative) good, sweet, kind (when addressing a person)
3. (figurative, derogatory) weak, cowardly

The two figurative senses are the only ones found in Homer.

• μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn)
• πεπόνιον n (pepónion) (Late Hellenistic diminutive)
• σίκυος πέπων (síkuos pépōn, “a kind of gourd or melon eaten when ripe”)

• → Albanian: pjep, pjepër
• → Latin: pepō, peponem (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pipun

• “πέπων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πέπων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πέπων”, 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.
  • assuaged idem, page 47.
  • gentle idem, page 357.
  • mature idem, page 518.
  • meek idem, page 522.
  • mellow idem, page 524.
  • mild idem, page 529.
  • ripe idem, page 716.
  • softened idem, page 791.

πέπων • (pépon) m (plural πέπονες)

1. Katharevousa form of πεπόνι (pepóni, “melon”)

• see: πεπόνι n (pepóni)