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αἰδοίων (aidoion)

αἰδοίων is an Ancient Greek form of αἰδοῖος, meaning “revered, respected”.

It can also be a form of αἰδοῖον, “private parts”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.104: … όμενοι μὲν ἐν μικροῖς πίνουσι, πλησθέντες δὲ ἐν μεγάλοις. ἐπιγράφεται δὲ αὐτοῦ ταῖς εἰκόσι· γλώσσης, γαστρός, αἰδοίων κρατεῖν. ἐρωτηθεὶς εἰ εἰσὶν ἐν Σκύθαις αὐλοί, εἶπεν, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ ἄμπελοι. ἐρωτηθεὶς τίνα τῶν πλοίων εἰσὶν ἀσφαλ …

All forms of αἰδοῖος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.