πέζις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”), the same root of Latin pēdō (“to fart”) and βδέω (bdéō, “to break wind”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.zis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
Noun
πέζῐς • (pézis) f (genitive πέζεως); third declension
- paltry puffball (Bovista plumbea)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ πέζῐς; τῆς πέζεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πέζῐς hē pézis | τὼ πέζει tṑ pézei | αἱ πέζεις hai pézeis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πέζεως tês pézeōs | τοῖν πεζέοιν toîn pezéoin | τῶν πέζεων tôn pézeōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πέζει têi pézei | τοῖν πεζέοιν toîn pezéoin | ταῖς πέζεσῐ / πέζεσῐν taîs pézesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πέζῐν tḕn pézin | τὼ πέζει tṑ pézei | τᾱ̀ς πέζεις tā̀s pézeis | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέζῐ pézi | πέζει pézei | πέζεις pézeis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέζις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέζις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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, →ISBN