πίπρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably an onomatopoeic word, like synonymous πιπώ (pipṓ, “great spotted woodpecker”) and πιππίζω (pippízō, “to chirp, pipe”), πῖπος (pîpos, “young piping bird”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pí.praː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
Noun
πῐ́πρᾱ • (píprā) f (genitive πῐ́πρᾱς); first declension
- great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
- Synonym: πῑπώ (pīpṓ)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ πῐ́πρᾱ; τῆς πῐ́πρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῐ́πρᾱ hē píprā | τὼ πῐ́πρᾱ tṑ píprā | αἱ πῐ́πραι hai píprai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῐ́πρᾱς tês píprās | τοῖν πῐ́πραιν toîn píprain | τῶν πῐπρῶν tôn piprôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῐ́πρᾳ têi píprāi | πῐ́πραιν píprain | ταῖς πῐ́πραις taîs píprais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῐ́πρᾱν tḕn píprān | πῐ́πρᾱ píprā | τᾱ̀ς πῐ́πρᾱς tā̀s píprās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῐ́πρᾱ píprā | πῐ́πρᾱ píprā | πῐ́πραι píprai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Pipra
Further reading
- πίπρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πίπρα 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