Πειραιεύς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Πειραεύς (Peiraeús)
Etymology
The name roughly translates as "the place over the passage."
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pi.rɛˈeʍs/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pi.rɛˈeɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pi.reˈefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi.reˈefs/
Proper noun
Πειραιεύς • (Peiraieús) m (genitive Πειραιῶς); third declension
- Piraeus, Athens, Attica, Greece
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ Πειραιεύς ho Peiraieús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Πειραιέως / Πειραιῶς toû Peiraiéōs / Peiraiôs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Πειραιεῖ tôi Peiraieî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Πειραιέᾱ / Πειραιᾶ tòn Peiraiéā / Peiraiâ | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Πειραιεῦ Peiraieû | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Arabic: بيرايوس
- Bulgarian: Пирея (Pireja)
- Catalan: Pireu
- Czech: Pireus
- Danish: Piræus
- Dutch: Piraeus
- Estonian: Pireus
- Finnish: Pireus
- French: Pirée
- German: Piräus
- Greek: Πειραιεύς (Peiraiéfs); Πειραιάς (Peiraiás)
- Hebrew: פיראוס
- Italian: Pireo
- Japanese: ピレウス
- Latin: Piraeus
- Latvian: Pireja
- Lithuanian: Pirėjas
- Lombard: Piraeus
- Luxembourgish: Piräus
- Norwegian: Pireus
- Polish: Pireus
- Portuguese: Pireu
- Romanian: Pireu
- Russian: Пирей (Pirej)
- Samogitian: Piriejos
- Slovak: Pireus
- Spanish: Pireo
- Swedish: Pireus
- Turkish: Pire
- Ukrainian: Пірей (Pirej)
- Welsh: Piraeus
References
- Πειραιεύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Πειραιεύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "The Port of Piraeus Through The Ages". greece.org.
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