σχόλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σχολή (skholḗ, “learning, lecture”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skʰó.li.on/ → /ˈsxo.li.on/ → /ˈsxo.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰó.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰo.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsxo.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsxo.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsxo.li.on/

Noun

σχόλῐον • (skhólĭon) n (genitive σχολῐ́ου); second declension

1. an interpretation, comment
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Atticus 16.7.3
   • 108 CE, Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 3.31.6
   1. a short note, scholium
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Philosophies for Sale 33
2. a long tedious speech, lecture
   • Photios I of Constantinople
   • Hesychius Σ

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σχόλῐον; τοῦ σχολῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σχόλῐον tò skhólĭon	τὼ σχολῐ́ω tṑ skholĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ σχόλῐᾰ tằ skhólĭă
Genitive	τοῦ σχολῐ́ου toû skholĭ́ou	τοῖν σχολῐ́οιν toîn skholĭ́oin	τῶν σχολῐ́ων tôn skholĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ σχολῐ́ῳ tōî skholĭ́ōi	τοῖν σχολῐ́οιν toîn skholĭ́oin	τοῖς σχολῐ́οις toîs skholĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ σχόλῐον tò skhólĭon	τὼ σχολῐ́ω tṑ skholĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ σχόλῐᾰ tằ skhólĭă
Vocative	σχόλῐον skhólĭon	σχολῐ́ω skholĭ́ō	σχόλῐᾰ skhólĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σχολιάζω (skholiázō)
  • σχολιαστής (skholiastḗs)

Further reading

• “σχόλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σχόλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette