πελιός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πελιδνός (pelidnós) Sanskrit पलित (palitá), Latin pallidus and Old Armenian ալիք (alikʿ, “wave, gray hair”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.li.ós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
Adjective
πελῐός • (peliós) m (feminine πελῐᾱ́, neuter πελῐόν); first/second declension
- black and blue, livid
- (generally) dark, dull
Inflection
First and second declension of πελῐός; πελῐᾱ́; πελῐόν (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | πελῐός peliós | πελῐᾱ́ peliā́ | πελῐόν pelión | πελῐώ peliṓ | πελῐᾱ́ peliā́ | πελῐώ peliṓ | πελῐοί pelioí | πελῐαί peliaí | πελῐᾰ́ peliá | |||||
Genitive | πελῐοῦ pelioû | πελῐᾶς peliâs | πελῐοῦ pelioû | πελῐοῖν pelioîn | πελῐαῖν peliaîn | πελῐοῖν pelioîn | πελῐῶν peliôn | πελῐῶν peliôn | πελῐῶν peliôn | |||||
Dative | πελῐῷ peliôi | πελῐᾷ peliâi | πελῐῷ peliôi | πελῐοῖν pelioîn | πελῐαῖν peliaîn | πελῐοῖν pelioîn | πελῐοῖς pelioîs | πελῐαῖς peliaîs | πελῐοῖς pelioîs | |||||
Accusative | πελῐόν pelión | πελῐᾱ́ν peliā́n | πελῐόν pelión | πελῐώ peliṓ | πελῐᾱ́ peliā́ | πελῐώ peliṓ | πελῐούς pelioús | πελῐᾱ́ς peliā́s | πελῐᾰ́ peliá | |||||
Vocative | πελῐέ pelié | πελῐᾱ́ peliā́ | πελῐόν pelión | πελῐώ peliṓ | πελῐᾱ́ peliā́ | πελῐώ peliṓ | πελῐοί pelioí | πελῐαί peliaí | πελῐᾰ́ peliá | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
πελῐῶς peliôs | πελῐώτερος peliṓteros | πελῐώτᾰτος peliṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πελιαίνομαι (peliaínomai)
- πελιόομαι (pelióomai)
- πελιότης (peliótēs)
- πελιώδης (peliṓdēs)
- πελίωμα (pelíōma)
- πελίωσις (pelíōsis)
Further reading
- “πελιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πελιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πελιός 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