πέδον

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, from *ped- (the source of πούς (poús, “foot”)). Cognates include Sanskrit पद (padá, “step, footstep, footprint”), Old Norse fet (“step”), Old Armenian հետ (het, “footprint, track”), and Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pēdan).^[1]

πέδον • (pédon) n (genitive πέδου); second declension

Second declension of τὸ πέδον; τοῦ πέδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέδον tò pédon	τὼ πέδω tṑ pédō	τᾰ̀ πέδᾰ tằ pédă
Genitive	τοῦ πέδου toû pédou	τοῖν πέδοιν toîn pédoin	τῶν πέδων tôn pédōn
Dative	τῷ πέδῳ tōî pédōi	τοῖν πέδοιν toîn pédoin	τοῖς πέδοις toîs pédois
Accusative	τὸ πέδον tò pédon	τὼ πέδω tṑ pédō	τᾰ̀ πέδᾰ tằ pédă
Vocative	πέδον pédon	πέδω pédō	πέδᾰ pédă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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- country idem, page 178.
- earth idem, page 259.
- ground idem, page 375.
- land idem, page 475.
- soil idem, page 791.
πέδον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011