πίτυς

πίτυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from the same source of Latin pinus (“pine”) and Sanskrit पीतुदारु (pītudāru, “kind of tree”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.tys/ → /ˈpi.tys/ → /ˈpi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pí.tys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tis/

Noun

πίτῠς • (pítus) f (genitive πίτῠος); third declension

1. pine

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πῐ́τῠς; τῆς πῐ́τῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐ́τῠς hē pítus	τὼ πῐ́τῠε tṑ pítue	αἱ πῐ́τῠες hai pítues
Genitive	τῆς πῐ́τῠος tês pítuos	τοῖν πῐτῠ́οιν toîn pitúoin	τῶν πῐτῠ́ων tôn pitúōn
Dative	τῇ πῐ́τῠῐ̈ / πῐ́τυι têi pítuï / pítui	τοῖν πῐτῠ́οιν toîn pitúoin	ταῖς πῐ́τῠσῐ / πῐ́τῠσῐν taîs pítusi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῐ́τῠν tḕn pítun	τὼ πῐ́τῠε tṑ pítue	τᾱ̀ς πῐ́τῡς / πῐ́τῠᾰς tā̀s pítūs / pítuas
Vocative	πῐ́τῠ pítu	πῐ́τῠε pítue	πῐ́τῠες pítues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πιτύδιον (pitúdion)
• πιτύινος (pitúinos)
• πιτυΐς (pituḯs)
• πιτυόεις (pituóeis)
• πιτυοκάμπη (pituokámpē)
• πιτυοτρόφος (pituotróphos)
• πιτύστεπτος (pitústeptos)
• πιτυώδης (pituṓdēs)
• χαμαίπιτυς (khamaípitus)

 

References

• πίτυς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πίτυς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίτυς 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