πέρκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *farwō (“colour”) and Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “dusky”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pér.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈper.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈper.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈper.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈper.kos/
Noun
πέρκος • (pérkos) m (genitive πέρκου); second declension
- A kind of hawk
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πέρκος; τοῦ πέρκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πέρκος ho pérkos | τὼ πέρκω tṑ pérkō | οἱ πέρκοι hoi pérkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πέρκου toû pérkou | τοῖν πέρκοιν toîn pérkoin | τῶν πέρκων tôn pérkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πέρκῳ tôi pérkōi | τοῖν πέρκοιν toîn pérkoin | τοῖς πέρκοις toîs pérkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πέρκον tòn pérkon | τὼ πέρκω tṑ pérkō | τοὺς πέρκους toùs pérkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέρκε pérke | πέρκω pérkō | πέρκοι pérkoi | ||||||||||
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References
- “πέρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέρκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette