πέπων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pékʷonts (“cooking, ripening”); related to πέσσω (péssō, “to soften, ripen”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.pɔːn/ → /ˈpe.pon/ → /ˈpe.pon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.pɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.pon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.pon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.pon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.pon/

Adjective

πέπων • (pépōn) m or f (neuter πέπον); third declension

1. ripe, softened (of fruit)
2. (figurative) good, sweet, kind (when addressing a person)
3. (figurative, derogatory) weak, cowardly

Usage notes

The two figurative senses are the only ones found in Homer.

Declension

Third declension of πέπων; πέπον (Attic)

Number		Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter		Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		πέπων pépōn	πέπον pépon		πέπονε pépone	πέπονε pépone		πέπονες pépones	πέπονᾰ péponă
Genitive		πέπονος péponos	πέπονος péponos		πεπόνοιν pepónoin	πεπόνοιν pepónoin		πεπόνων pepónōn	πεπόνων pepónōn
Dative		πέπονῐ péponĭ	πέπονῐ péponĭ		πεπόνοιν pepónoin	πεπόνοιν pepónoin		πέποσῐ / πέποσῐν péposĭ(n)	πέποσῐ / πέποσῐν péposĭ(n)
Accusative		πέπονᾰ péponă	πέπον pépon		πέπονε pépone	πέπονε pépone		πέπονᾰς péponăs	πέπονᾰ péponă
Vocative		πέπον pépon	πέπον pépon		πέπονε pépone	πέπονε pépone		πέπονες pépones	πέπονᾰ péponă
Derived forms		Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
		πεπόνως pepónōs			πεπονέστερος peponésteros			πεπονέστᾰτος peponéstătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn)
• πεπόνιον n (pepónion) (Late Hellenistic diminutive)
• σίκυος πέπων (síkuos pépōn, “a kind of gourd or melon eaten when ripe”)

Descendants

• → Albanian: pjep, pjepër
• → Latin: pepō, peponem (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pipun

Further reading

• “πέπων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πέπων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πέπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • assuaged idem, page 47.
  • gentle idem, page 357.
  • mature idem, page 518.
  • meek idem, page 522.
  • mellow idem, page 524.
  • mild idem, page 529.
  • ripe idem, page 716.
  • softened idem, page 791.

Greek

Noun

πέπων • (pépon) m (plural πέπονες)

1. Katharevousa form of πεπόνι (pepóni, “melon”)

Synonyms

• see: πεπόνι n (pepóni)