πελεκῖνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of πελεκᾶς (pelekâs, “kind of woodpecker”), πελεκανός (pelekanós, “coot”) and πελεκάν (pelekán, “pelican”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.le.kîː.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.leˈki.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.leˈci.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.leˈci.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.leˈci.nos/
Noun
πελεκῖνος • (pelekînos) m (genitive πελεκῑ́νου); second declension
- pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
- Synonyms: ὀνοκρότᾰλος (onokrótalos), πελεκᾰ́ν (pelekán)
- crownvetch (Securigera varia)
- dovetail, culvertail
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ πελεκῖνος; τοῦ πελεκῑ́νου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πελεκῖνος ho pelekînos | τὼ πελεκῑ́νω tṑ pelekī́nō | οἱ πελεκῖνοι hoi pelekînoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πελεκῑ́νου toû pelekī́nou | τοῖν πελεκῑ́νοιν toîn pelekī́noin | τῶν πελεκῑ́νων tôn pelekī́nōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πελεκῑ́νῳ tôi pelekī́nōi | τοῖν πελεκῑ́νοιν toîn pelekī́noin | τοῖς πελεκῑ́νοις toîs pelekī́nois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πελεκῖνον tòn pelekînon | τὼ πελεκῑ́νω tṑ pelekī́nō | τοὺς πελεκῑ́νους toùs pelekī́nous | ||||||||||
Vocative | πελεκῖνε pelekîne | πελεκῑ́νω pelekī́nō | πελεκῖνοι pelekînoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πελεκῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πελεκῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “πελεκάν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1166