χονδρίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χόνδρος (khóndros, “lump”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰon.drí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰonˈdri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xonˈdri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xonˈdri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xonˈdri.on/
Noun
χονδρίον • (khondríon) n (genitive χονδρίου); second declension
- diminutive of χόνδρος (khóndros)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ χονδρῐ́ον tò khondrĭ́on |
τὼ χονδρῐ́ω tṑ khondrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ χονδρῐ́ᾰ tằ khondrĭ́ă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χονδρῐ́ου toû khondrĭ́ou |
τοῖν χονδρῐ́οιν toîn khondrĭ́oin |
τῶν χονδρῐ́ων tôn khondrĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χονδρῐ́ῳ tōî khondrĭ́ōi |
τοῖν χονδρῐ́οιν toîn khondrĭ́oin |
τοῖς χονδρῐ́οις toîs khondrĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ χονδρῐ́ον tò khondrĭ́on |
τὼ χονδρῐ́ω tṑ khondrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ χονδρῐ́ᾰ tằ khondrĭ́ă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χονδρῐ́ον khondrĭ́on |
χονδρῐ́ω khondrĭ́ō |
χονδρῐ́ᾰ khondrĭ́ă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: chondrio-
- →⇒ German: Mitochondrium, Mitochondrion
- → English: mitochondrion
- → Galician: mitocondria
- → Hungarian: mitokondrium
- → Norwegian: mitokondrium
- → Portuguese: mitocôndria
- → Russian: митохо́ндрия (mitoxóndrija)
- → Kazakh: митохондрия (mitoxondriä)
- → Spanish: mitocondria
Further reading
- χονδρίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χονδρίον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “χονδρίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χονδρίον in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn