κίων

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱiHwon-, whence also Old Armenian սիւն (siwn, “column, pillar”). No other cognates survive.

κῑ́ων • (kī́ōn) m or f (genitive κῑ́ονος); third declension

1. pillar, column
   • κίων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, pillar of the sky, Atlas.
2. a columnar gravestone
3. the uvula
4. the division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose
5. a type of meteor
6. a type of wart

• → Translingual: Cionus

• “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κίων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κίων”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • pillar idem, page 613.
  • post idem, page 629.
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887), Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, page 356 explaining as (the Phoenician equivalent of) Hebrew כִּיּוּן (kiwōn) only in Amos 5, 26 more likely meaning “Saturn” rather than “statue of an idol” following meanings of being “upright”