ἴον

See also: -ιον, ιόν, and ἰόν

Ancient Greek

Related to Latin viola, both from a common (unknown) Mediterranean substrate.^[1] Originally *ϝίον (*wíon).

ῐ̓́ον • (ĭ́on) n (genitive ῐ̓́ου); second declension

Second declension of τὸ ῐ̓́ον; τοῦ ῐ̓́ου (heterocliton with plural dative: ῑ̓ᾰ́σῐ, Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῐ̓́ον tò ĭ́on	τὼ ῐ̓́ω tṑ ĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́ᾰ tằ ĭ́ă
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̓́ου toû ĭ́ou	τοῖν ῐ̓́οιν toîn ĭ́oin	τῶν ῐ̓́ων tôn ĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̓́ῳ tōî ĭ́ōi	τοῖν ῐ̓́οιν toîn ĭ́oin	τοῖς ῐ̓́οις / ῑ̓ᾰ́σῐ toîs ĭ́ois / īắsĭ
Accusative	τὸ ῐ̓́ον tò ĭ́on	τὼ ῐ̓́ω tṑ ĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῐ̓́ᾰ tằ ĭ́ă
Vocative	ῐ̓́ον ĭ́on	ῐ̓́ω ĭ́ō	ῐ̓́ᾰ ĭ́ă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἰάζω (iázō)
ἴον τὸ λευκόν (íon tò leukón), λευκόϊον (leukóïon, “gilliflower”) Matthiola incana

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἴον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 594

“ἴον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἴον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἴον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἴον”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter