πέλτης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pél.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpel.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpel.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpel.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpel.tis/
Noun
πέλτης • (péltēs) m (genitive πέλτου); first declension
- the Nile-fish coracinus after being pickled
Declension
First declension of ὁ πέλτης; τοῦ πέλτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πέλτης ho péltēs | τὼ πέλτᾱ tṑ péltā | οἱ πέλται hoi péltai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πέλτου toû péltou | τοῖν πέλταιν toîn péltain | τῶν πελτῶν tôn peltôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πέλτῃ tôi péltēi | τοῖν πέλταιν toîn péltain | τοῖς πέλταις toîs péltais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πέλτην tòn péltēn | τὼ πέλτᾱ tṑ péltā | τοὺς πέλτᾱς toùs péltās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέλτᾰ pélta | πέλτᾱ péltā | πέλται péltai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέλτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέλτης 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