πέμπελος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Galen's explanation is a folk etymology based on the similarity with πέμπω (pémpō, “to send, dispatch”). Blanc proposed a reduplication πελ-πελ- from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”), the same root of πελιός (peliós, “livid”) and πελιδνός (pelidnós, “pallid”). Anothery theory by Furnée links this adjective to Georgian პეპერა (ṗeṗera, “ancestor, forefather”), showing nasalization.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pém.pe.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpem.pe.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpem.pe.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpem.pe.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpem.be.los/
Adjective
πέμπελος • (pémpelos) m or f (neuter πέμπελον); second declension
- old, aged
- Synonym: γηραιός (gēraiós)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: στωμύλος (stōmúlos, “talkative”), λάλος (lálos, “loquacious”).
Declension
Second declension of πέμπελος; πέμπελον (Attic)
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | πέμπελος pémpelos | πέμπελον pémpelon | πεμπέλω pempélō | πεμπέλω pempélō | πέμπελοι pémpeloi | πέμπελᾰ pémpela | ||||||||
| Genitive | πεμπέλου pempélou | πεμπέλου pempélou | πεμπέλοιν pempéloin | πεμπέλοιν pempéloin | πεμπέλων pempélōn | πεμπέλων pempélōn | ||||||||
| Dative | πεμπέλῳ pempélōi | πεμπέλῳ pempélōi | πεμπέλοιν pempéloin | πεμπέλοιν pempéloin | πεμπέλοις pempélois | πεμπέλοις pempélois | ||||||||
| Accusative | πέμπελον pémpelon | πέμπελον pémpelon | πεμπέλω pempélō | πεμπέλω pempélō | πεμπέλους pempélous | πέμπελᾰ pémpela | ||||||||
| Vocative | πέμπελε pémpele | πέμπελον pémpelon | πεμπέλω pempélō | πεμπέλω pempélō | πέμπελοι pémpeloi | πέμπελᾰ pémpela | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| πεμπέλως pempélōs | πεμπελώτερος pempelṓteros | πεμπελώτᾰτος pempelṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέμπελος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέμπελος 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: π