κελλίον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κέλλα (kélla, “cell”) + -ίον (-íon, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kel.lí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kelˈli.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /celˈli.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /celˈli.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈli.on/
Noun
κελλίον • (kellíon) n (genitive κελλίου); second declension
Declension
Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: κελλίν (kellín)
- Classical Syriac: ܩܠܝܬܐ (qellāṯā, qellāyṯā, qellīṯā)
Further reading
- κελλίον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κελλίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press