πέλλυτρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πελλασταί (pellastaí), πελλύτα (pellúta), πελλύτευμα (pellúteuma)
Etymology
Traditionally analyzed as *πεδ-ϝλῡ-τρα (*ped-wlū-tra), a compound of πούς (poús, “foot”) + ἔλυτρον (élutron, “covering”). Nevertheless, monosyllabic ϝλυ- and its length are surprising.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pél.lyː.tra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpel.ly.tra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpel.ly.tra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpel.ly.tra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.li.tra/
Noun
πέλλῡτρᾰ • (péllūtra) n pl (genitive πελλῡ́τρων); second declension
- sock or bandage worn by runners on the ankle
Declension
Second declension of τᾰ̀ πέλλῡτρᾰ; τῶν πελλῡ́τρων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ πέλλῡτρᾰ tà péllūtra | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν πελλῡ́τρων tôn pellū́trōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς πελλῡ́τροις toîs pellū́trois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ πέλλῡτρᾰ tà péllūtra | ||||||||||||
Vocative | πέλλῡτρᾰ péllūtra | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέλλυτρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέλλυτρα 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