κάλλιον
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kál.liː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkal.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkal.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkal.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.li.on/
Adjective
κᾰ́λλῑον • (kắllīon)
- inflection of κᾰλλῑ́ων (kăllī́ōn):
- masculine/feminine vocative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
Noun
κᾰ́λλῑον • (kắllīon) n (genitive κᾰλλῑ́ου); second declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́λλῑον tò kắllīon |
τὼ κᾰλλῑ́ω tṑ kăllī́ō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́λλῑᾰ tằ kắllīă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰλλῑ́ου toû kăllī́ou |
τοῖν κᾰλλῑ́οιν toîn kăllī́oin |
τῶν κᾰλλῑ́ων tôn kăllī́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰλλῑ́ῳ tōî kăllī́ōi |
τοῖν κᾰλλῑ́οιν toîn kăllī́oin |
τοῖς κᾰλλῑ́οις toîs kăllī́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́λλῑον tò kắllīon |
τὼ κᾰλλῑ́ω tṑ kăllī́ō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́λλῑᾰ tằ kắllīă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́λλῑον kắllīon |
κᾰλλῑ́ω kăllī́ō |
κᾰ́λλῑᾰ kắllīă | ||||||||||
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Adverb
κᾰ́λλῑον • (kắllīon)
- comparative degree of κᾱ̆λῶς (kā̆lôs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “κάλλιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάλλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάλλιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κάλλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G2566 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- better idem, page 77.