πίθηκος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πῐ́θᾱκος (píthākos) – Doric
Etymology
Uncertain. Commonly connected with Latin foedus (“ugly”), as if from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰid-, *bʰoyd-. Beekes argues for an origin as a substrate loan-word or perhaps Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pí.tʰɛː.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.tʰe.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πῐ́θηκος ho píthēkos |
τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō |
οἱ πῐ́θηκοι hoi píthēkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πῐθήκου toû pithḗkou |
τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin |
τῶν πῐθήκων tôn pithḗkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πῐθήκῳ tôi pithḗkōi |
τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin |
τοῖς πῐθήκοις toîs pithḗkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πῐ́θηκον tòn píthēkon |
τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō |
τοὺς πῐθήκους toùs pithḗkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῐ́θηκε píthēke |
πῐθήκω pithḗkō |
πῐ́θηκοι píthēkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κερκοπῐ́θηκος (kerkopíthēkos)
- πῐθηκοειδής (pithēkoeidḗs)
Descendants
- English: pithec-
References
- πίθηκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πίθηκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πίθηκος 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos).
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