νικύλεον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Neumann, from Pre-Greek[1]. He connects it with the Linear B sign 𐀛 (ni), which looks like the branch of a fig-tree. In a later article, he further connects Egyptian nḳꜤ.wt (“figs”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ni.ký.le.on/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /niˈky.le.on/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /niˈcy.le.on/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /niˈcy.le.on/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /niˈci.le.on/

Noun

νικύλεον • (nikúleon) n (genitive νικυλέου); second declension

A kind of fig found in Crete
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.76f:
  Ἑρμῶναξ δ’ ἐν Γλώτταις Κρητικαῖς σύκων γένη ἀναγράφει ἁμάδεα καὶ νικύλεα.
  Hermônax d’ en Glṓttais Krētikaîs súkōn génē anagráphei hamádea kaì nikúlea.
  Hermonax in his 'Cretan Languages' lists as species of figs the hamadea and the nikulea.

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

Neumann, Günter (1957), “Zur Sprache der kretischen Linearschrift A”, in Glotta, volume 35, issue 1/2, →JSTOR, pages 156-158

νικύλεον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
“νικύλεον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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[1] Neumann, Günter (1957), “Zur Sprache der kretischen Linearschrift A”, in Glotta, volume 35, issue 1/2, →JSTOR, pages 156-158