"παιών" meaning in Ancient Greek

See παιών in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/, /pɛˈon/, /peˈon/, /pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /pɛˈon/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /pɛˈon/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /peˈon/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /peˈon/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Earlier *παιά-ϝων (*paiá-wōn) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 (pa-ja-wo-ne /⁠Paiāwonei⁠/)), related to παιάν (paián, “choral song, hymn, war song”), which see for more. Etymology templates: {{dercat|grc|qsb-grc}}, {{cog|gmy|𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚|ts=Paiāwonei}} Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 (pa-ja-wo-ne /⁠Paiāwonei⁠/) Head templates: {{grc-noun|παιῶνος|m|third}} παιών • (paiṓn) m (genitive παιῶνος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|παιών|παιῶνος|form=M}} Forms: paiṓn [romanization], παιῶνος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ὁ παιών [nominative, singular], παιῶνε [dual, nominative], οἱ παιῶνες [nominative, plural], τοῦ παιῶνος [genitive, singular], παιώνοιν [dual, genitive], παιώνων [genitive, plural], τῷ παιῶνῐ [dative, singular], παιώνοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς παιῶσῐ [dative, plural], παιῶσῐν [dative, plural], toîs paiôsĭ [dative, plural], toîs paiôsĭn [dative, plural], τὸν παιῶνᾰ [accusative, singular], παιῶνε [accusative, dual], τοὺς παιῶνᾰς [accusative, plural], παιών [singular, vocative], παιῶνε [dual, vocative], παιῶνες [plural, vocative], παιάν [alternative], παιήων [alternative]
  1. physician, healer
    Sense id: en-παιών-grc-noun-piOUtuZG
  2. (prosody) paeon
    Sense id: en-παιών-grc-noun-6fSlkac4 Categories (other): Prosody, Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Healthcare occupations Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97 Disambiguation of Healthcare occupations: 25 75 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Παιών (Paiṓn), παιωνίᾱ (paiōníā), παιωνίζω (paiōnízō), παιωνικός (paiōnikós), παιώνιος (paiṓnios), παιωνισμός (paiōnismós)
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      "word": "Παιών"
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      "roman": "paiōníā",
      "word": "παιωνίᾱ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "paiōnízō",
      "word": "παιωνίζω"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "paiōnikós",
      "word": "παιωνικός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "paiṓnios",
      "word": "παιώνιος"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "word": "παιωνισμός"
    }
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          "expansion": "→ Finnish: peoni",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: peoni"
    },
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
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  "etymology_text": "Earlier *παιά-ϝων (*paiá-wōn) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚 (pa-ja-wo-ne /⁠Paiāwonei⁠/)), related to παιάν (paián, “choral song, hymn, war song”), which see for more.",
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      "form": "παιῶνος",
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      "form": "οἱ παιῶνες",
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      ]
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    {
      "form": "τῷ παιῶνῐ",
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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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    {
      "form": "τοῖς παιῶσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "παιῶσῐν",
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      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "toîs paiôsĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs paiôsĭn",
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "τὸν παιῶνᾰ",
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        "dual"
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      "form": "τοὺς παιῶνᾰς",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
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        "vocative"
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    },
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        "vocative"
      ]
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      "form": "παιάν",
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      ]
    },
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      ],
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        ]
      ]
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        },
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          "_dis": "3 97",
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        },
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      ],
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        "linguistics",
        "phonology",
        "prosody",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɛˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɛˈon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɛˈon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peˈon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peˈon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "παιών"
}
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    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
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    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
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      "roman": "Paiṓn",
      "word": "Παιών"
    },
    {
      "roman": "paiōníā",
      "word": "παιωνίᾱ"
    },
    {
      "roman": "paiōnízō",
      "word": "παιωνίζω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "paiōnikós",
      "word": "παιωνικός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "paiṓnios",
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    },
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      "roman": "paiōnismós",
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      "form": "τῷ παιῶνῐ",
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        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "παιῶσῐν",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "form": "toîs paiôsĭ",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "τὸν παιῶνᾰ",
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      ]
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      "form": "παιάν",
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  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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        "human-sciences",
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        "prosody",
        "sciences"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɛˈon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peˈon/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/pai̯.ɔ̌ːn/",
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    },
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      "ipa": "/pɛˈon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɛˈon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peˈon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peˈon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "παιών"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.