εἰδύλλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εἶδος (eîdos, “shape, form”) +‎ -ύλλιον (-úllion, diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eː.dýl.li.on/ → /iˈðyl.li.on/ → /iˈði.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /eː.dýl.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈdyl.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈðyl.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈðyl.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈði.li.on/

Noun

εἰδύλλῐον • (eidúllion) n (genitive εἰδυλλίου); second declension

1. idyll (a short descriptive poem, mostly on pastoral subjects)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον; τοῦ εἰδῠλλῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον tò eidúllion	τὼ εἰδῠλλῐ́ω tṑ eidullíō	τᾰ̀ εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ tà eidúllia
Genitive	τοῦ εἰδῠλλῐ́ου toû eidullíou	τοῖν εἰδῠλλῐ́οιν toîn eidullíoin	τῶν εἰδῠλλῐ́ων tôn eidullíōn
Dative	τῷ εἰδῠλλῐ́ῳ tôi eidullíōi	τοῖν εἰδῠλλῐ́οιν toîn eidullíoin	τοῖς εἰδῠλλῐ́οις toîs eidullíois
Accusative	τὸ εἰδῠ́λλῐον tò eidúllion	τὼ εἰδῠλλῐ́ω tṑ eidullíō	τᾰ̀ εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ tà eidúllia
Vocative	εἰδῠ́λλῐον eidúllion	εἰδῠλλῐ́ω eidullíō	εἰδῠ́λλῐᾰ eidúllia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: ειδύλλιο (eidýllio)
• → Bulgarian: идилия (idilija)
• → Esperanto: idilio
• → Ido: idilio
• → Russian: иди́ллия (idíllija)
  • → Kazakh: идиллия (idilliä)
  • → Yiddish: אידיליע (idilye)
• → Latin: īdyllium
  • Catalan: idil·li
  • → Czech: idyla
  • → Danish: idyl
  • → English: idyll
  • French: idylle
  • Galician: idilio
  • → German: Idyll
  • → Finnish: idylli
  • → Polish: idylla
  • Portuguese: idílio
  • → Slovene: idila
  • Spanish: idilio
  • → Swedish: idyll

Further reading

• εἰδύλλιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “εἰδύλλιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “εἰδύλλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press