πελωρίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πέλωρ (pélōr, “portent, prodigy, monster”) + -ῐ́ς (-ís).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.lɔː.rís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.loˈris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.loˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.loˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.loˈris/
Noun
πελωρῐ́ς • (pelōrís) f (genitive πελωρῐ́δος); third declension
- kind of large mussel
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ πελωρῐ́ς; τῆς πελωρῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πελωρῐ́ς hē pelōrís | τὼ πελωρῐ́δε tṑ pelōríde | αἱ πελωρῐ́δες hai pelōrídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πελωρῐ́δος tês pelōrídos | τοῖν πελωρῐ́δοιν toîn pelōrídoin | τῶν πελωρῐ́δων tôn pelōrídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πελωρῐ́δῐ têi pelōrídi | τοῖν πελωρῐ́δοιν toîn pelōrídoin | ταῖς πελωρῐ́σῐ / πελωρῐ́σῐν taîs pelōrísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πελωρῐ́δᾰ tḕn pelōrída | τὼ πελωρῐ́δε tṑ pelōríde | τᾱ̀ς πελωρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pelōrídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πελωρῐ́ς pelōrís | πελωρῐ́δε pelōríde | πελωρῐ́δες pelōrídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: pelōris
- → French: palourde
Further reading
- “πελωρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πελωρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette