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|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῑ], ονος</b>, Hom. (not in Il.), mostly <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ἡ; ὁ <span class="bibl">Od.8.66</span>, <span class="bibl">473</span>, <span class="bibl">19.38</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Eumel.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>105</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.184</span>, etc.; ἡ <span class="bibl">Id.1.92</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>1.19</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>9(2).258.12 (Cierium, ii B.C.), al.:—[[pillar]], freq. in Od. of roof-[[pillars]], <span class="bibl">19.38</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>8</span>; οἱ κ. οἱ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>303b</span>, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>969.10 (Piraeus, iv B.C.), al.; used as a flogging-post, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>108</span>, <span class="bibl">Aeschin. 1.59</span>: prov., <b class="b3">ἔσθι' ἐλθὼν τοὺς Μεγακλέους κίονας</b> eat the [[pillars]] of his hall, for, being a spendthrift, he had nothing else left to give, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span> 815</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of natural objects, [Ἄτλας] ἔχει… κίονας αὐτὸς μακράς, αἳ γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἀμφὶς ἔχουσι <span class="bibl">Od.1.53</span>; [<b class="b3">Ἄτλας] ἕστηκε κίον</b>' (dual) οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸς… ἐρείδων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>351</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ κ. τοῦ οὐρανοῦ</b> (of Mount Atlas) <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.184</span>; <b class="b3">κίων οὐρανία</b>, of Aetna, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>1.19</span>; for [[the Pillars]] of Hercules, v. [[Ἡράκλειος]] <span class="bibl">1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[columnar gravestone]], AP7.163 (Leon.): distd.from <b class="b3">στήλη</b>, <span class="bibl">And.1.38</span>; <b class="b3">κ. τετράπλευρος</b> an obelisk, <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>1061 (Constantinople); any [[column]] bearing an inscription, <b class="b3">ἀγγράψαι ἐγ κίονα λιθίναν</b> <span class="title">IG</span>l.c. (cf. p.xii); <b class="b3">ἔσται ἡ στήλη ἐπὶ τοῦ κείονος</b> ib.22.1368.29 (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[uvula]], κ. ἀνεσπασμένος <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">Epid.</span>1.26</span>.έ, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>493a3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b2">division of the nostrils, cartilage of the nose</b>, <span class="bibl">Ruf.<span class="title">Onom.</span>37</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.2.79</span>, <span class="bibl">80</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> kind of [[meteor]], Placit.3.2.5. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">VI</span> kind of [[wart]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Nat.Mul.</span>65</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mul.</span>2.212</span> (where <b class="b3">κιών</b>, oxyt.). (Cf. Arm. [[siun]] 'pillar'.)</span>

|etymtx=-ονος<br />Grammatical information: m. f. (on the gender Schwyzer 486, Schwyzer-Debrunner 37)<br />Meaning: [[column]], [[pillar]], also metaph. (Od.); as medic. terminus [[cartiledge]], [[wart]] (Hp.).<br />Compounds: As 1. member in <b class="b3">κιονό-κρανον</b> [[capital of a column]] (Str. 4, 4, 6 [v. l.], D. S.) beside earlier and more usual <b class="b3">κιό-κρανον</b> (Pl. Com., X., Delos IIIa etc.; syll. dissimilation). Further <b class="b3">ἀκρο-</b>, <b class="b3">τετρα-</b>, <b class="b3">μετα-</b>, <b class="b3">προ-κιόν-ιον</b> (Ph.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. <b class="b3">κιόνιον</b> (Ph. Bel.), <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b> (Hero, J.), <b class="b3">-ίς</b> [[uvula]] (medic.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably], LW [loanword] Anat.<br />Etymology: With Arm. [[siwn]] [[column]] identical, further isolated. One of the Graeco-Armenian agreements (Schwyzer 57). Specht KZ 66, 13 (also Lexis 3, 70) assumes a common Gr.-Arm. LW [loanword]; cf. on <b class="b3">αἴξ</b> and Porzig Gliederung 157; cf. also <b class="b3">γέφυρα</b>. Can the word be Pre-Greek?