πέρδιξ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πήρῑξ (pḗrīx) – Cretan
Etymology
Traditionally explained as a derivative from πέρδομαι (pérdomai, “I fart”), due to the droning sound when partridges take wing. However, Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin, as he considers the suffix -ῑκ- to be of substrate origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pér.diːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈper.diks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈper.ðiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈper.ðiks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈper.ðiks/
Noun
πέρδῑξ • (pérdīx) m or f (genitive πέρδῑκος); third declension
- partridge
Declension
Third declension of ὁ, ἡ πέρδῑξ; τοῦ, τῆς πέρδῑκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ πέρδῑξ ho, hē pérdīx | τὼ πέρδῑκε tṑ pérdīke | οἱ, αἱ πέρδῑκες hoi, hai pérdīkes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς πέρδῑκος toû, tês pérdīkos | τοῖν περδῑ́κοιν toîn perdī́koin | τῶν περδῑ́κων tôn perdī́kōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ πέρδῑκῐ tôi, têi pérdīki | τοῖν περδῑ́κοιν toîn perdī́koin | τοῖς, ταῖς πέρδῑξῐ / πέρδῑξῐν toîs, taîs pérdīxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν πέρδῑκᾰ tòn, tḕn pérdīka | τὼ πέρδῑκε tṑ pérdīke | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς πέρδῑκᾰς toùs, tā̀s pérdīkas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέρδῑξ pérdīx | πέρδῑκε pérdīke | πέρδῑκες pérdīkes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- περδίκειος (perdíkeios)
- περδικιάς (perdikiás)
- περδικιδεύς (perdikideús)
- περδικικός (perdikikós)
- περδίκιον (perdíkion)
- περδικίτης (perdikítēs)
- περδικοθήρας (perdikothḗras)
- περδικοτρόφος (perdikotróphos)
- συροπέρδιξ (suropérdix)
Descendants
- Greek: πέρδικα (pérdika)
- → Aromanian: pirdic
- → Latin: perdīx (see there for further descendants)
References
- “πέρδιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέρδιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέρδιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- partridge idem, page 595.
- 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