Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /peðíon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peðíon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peðíon/

Noun

πεδίον • ‎(pedíon) n ‎(genitive πεδίου); second declension

1. open country, field, plain, flat
2. metatarsus
3. female genitals
   • the Lysistrata:

     νὴ μὰ Δία Βοιωτία, καλόν γ᾽ ἔχουσα τὸ πεδίον

Usage notes

The line in the Lysistrata uses this term in an innuendo (wordplay on its usual meaning of "plain") to refer to a female's genitals.

Inflection

Descendants

• English: pedion, Pædion

References

• πεδίον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πεδίον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πεδίον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πεδίον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πεδίον» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πεδίον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • champaign idem, page 123.
  • heath idem, page 393.
  • plain idem, page 616.
  • plateau idem, page 618.
  • stretch idem, page 825.
  • tract idem, page 885.