Ἄπιον

pear

Translated by Catharine Roth26 May 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

6 words

*)/apion [is] neuter, but a)/pios feminine.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄπιον οὐδέτερον, Ἄπιος δὲ θηλυκόν.

Betacode

*)/apion ou)de/teron, *)/apios de\ qhluko/n.

(Entry lacking, Adler reports, in several of the manuscripts.)
The name of this fruit follows the regular pattern: the fruit is a neuter noun, but the tree is a feminine second-declension noun.
cf. generally alpha 3194 and especially alpha 3197.