πέλανος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πελανός (pelanós)
Etymology
The original meaning and etymology are uncertain. If the original meaning was "flat cake", it could be derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). However, Furnée compares πέλαινα (pélaina, “round cake”) and concludes that it is a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.la.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.nos/
Noun
πέλᾰνος • (pélanos) m (genitive πελᾰ́νου); second declension
- any thick liquid substance, of various consistency
- mixture offered to the gods and the dead, of meal, honey and oil
- meal made from barley and wheat, of which this mixture was made
- round cake offered to the gods
- measure of weight
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πέλᾰνος; τοῦ πελᾰ́νου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πέλᾰνος ho pélanos | τὼ πελᾰ́νω tṑ pelánō | οἱ πέλᾰνοι hoi pélanoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πελᾰ́νου toû pelánou | τοῖν πελᾰ́νοιν toîn pelánoin | τῶν πελᾰ́νων tôn pelánōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πελᾰ́νῳ tôi pelánōi | τοῖν πελᾰ́νοιν toîn pelánoin | τοῖς πελᾰ́νοις toîs pelánois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πέλᾰνον tòn pélanon | τὼ πελᾰ́νω tṑ pelánō | τοὺς πελᾰ́νους toùs pelánous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέλᾰνε pélane | πελᾰ́νω pelánō | πέλᾰνοι pélanoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέλανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέλανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέλανος 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