πέλεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.leː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.li.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.li.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.li.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.li.a/
Noun
πέλειᾰ • (péleia) f (genitive πελείᾱς); first declension
- rock pigeon
- a prophetic priestess of Dodona (usually in plural)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ πέλειᾰ; τῆς πελείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πέλειᾰ hē péleia | τὼ πελείᾱ tṑ peleíā | αἱ πέλειαι hai péleiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πελείᾱς tês peleíās | τοῖν πελείαιν toîn peleíain | τῶν πελειῶν tôn peleiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πελείᾳ têi peleíāi | τοῖν πελείαιν toîn peleíain | ταῖς πελείαις taîs peleíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πέλειᾰν tḕn péleian | τὼ πελείᾱ tṑ peleíā | τᾱ̀ς πελείᾱς tā̀s peleíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέλειᾰ péleia | πελείᾱ peleíā | πέλειαι péleiai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέλεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πέλεια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dove idem, page 248.