πέσκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the source of this word could be the Proto-Indo-European root *peḱ- (“to pluck”), from which πεκτέω (pektéō, “to shear”), πόκος (pókos, “wool”) and κτείς (kteís, “comb”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pés.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpes.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpes.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpes.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpes.kos/
Noun
πέσκος • (péskos) n (genitive πέσκεος or πέσκους); third declension
- skin, hide, rind
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ πέσκος; τοῦ πέσκεος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πέσκος tò péskos | τὼ πέσκεε tṑ péskee | τᾰ̀ πέσκεᾰ tà péskea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πέσκεος toû péskeos | τοῖν πεσκέοιν toîn peskéoin | τῶν πεσκέων tôn peskéōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πέσκεῐ̈ tôi péskeï | τοῖν πεσκέοιν toîn peskéoin | τοῖς πέσκεσῐ / πέσκεσῐν toîs péskesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πέσκος tò péskos | τὼ πέσκεε tṑ péskee | τᾰ̀ πέσκεᾰ tà péskea | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέσκος péskos | πέσκεε péskee | πέσκεᾰ péskea | ||||||||||
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Third declension of τὸ πέσκος; τοῦ πέσκους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πέσκος tò péskos | τὼ πέσκει tṑ péskei | τᾰ̀ πέσκη tà péskē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πέσκους toû péskous | τοῖν πεσκοῖν toîn peskoîn | τῶν πεσκῶν tôn peskôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πέσκει tôi péskei | τοῖν πεσκοῖν toîn peskoîn | τοῖς πέσκεσῐ / πέσκεσῐν toîs péskesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πέσκος tò péskos | τὼ πέσκει tṑ péskei | τᾰ̀ πέσκη tà péskē | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέσκος péskos | πέσκει péskei | πέσκη péskē | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: pescia
Further reading
- “πέσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέσκος 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