κώνειον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe related to κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), due to its narrow leaves with pointed teeth. Furnée connects the word also with κονή (konḗ) and ἀκόνιτον (akóniton), which leads to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.neː.on/ → /ˈko.ni.on/ → /ˈko.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.neː.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ni.on/

Noun

κώνειον • (kṓneion) n (genitive κωνείου); second declension

1. poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κώνειον; τοῦ κωνείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κώνειον tò kṓneion	τὼ κωνείω tṑ kōneíō	τᾰ̀ κώνειᾰ tà kṓneia
Genitive	τοῦ κωνείου toû kōneíou	τοῖν κωνείοιν toîn kōneíoin	τῶν κωνείων tôn kōneíōn
Dative	τῷ κωνείῳ tôi kōneíōi	τοῖν κωνείοιν toîn kōneíoin	τοῖς κωνείοις toîs kōneíois
Accusative	τὸ κώνειον tò kṓneion	τὼ κωνείω tṑ kōneíō	τᾰ̀ κώνειᾰ tà kṓneia
Vocative	κώνειον kṓneion	κωνείω kōneíō	κώνειᾰ kṓneia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωνειάζομαι (kōneiázomai)

Descendants

• → Latin: cōnium
• → Old Georgian: კონიონი (ḳonioni)

Further reading

• “κώνειον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κώνειον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN