πεῖνα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- πείνη (peínē) – Ionic
Etymology
Unknown. Furnée compares ἠπανάω (ēpanáō, “to be in want”), but this is rather doubtful.
Noun
πεῖνᾰ • (peîna) f (genitive πείνης); first declension
- hunger, famine, starvation
- Synonym: λιμός (limós)
- hunger or longing for a thing
Inflection
First declension of ἡ πεῖνᾰ; τῆς πείνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πεῖνᾰ hē peîna | τὼ πείνᾱ tṑ peínā | αἱ πεῖναι hai peînai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πείνης tês peínēs | τοῖν πείναιν toîn peínain | τῶν πεινῶν tôn peinôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πείνῃ têi peínēi | πείναιν peínain | ταῖς πείναις taîs peínais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πεῖνᾰν tḕn peînan | πείνᾱ peínā | τᾱ̀ς πείνᾱς tā̀s peínās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πεῖνᾰ peîna | πείνᾱ peínā | πεῖναι peînai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γεωπείνης (geōpeínēs)
- ὀξύπεινος (oxúpeinos)
- πειναλέος (peinaléos)
- πεινάω (peináō)
- πεινητικός (peinētikós)
- πεινώδης (peinṓdēs)
- πεινωλκός (peinōlkós)
- πρόσπεινος (próspeinos)
Descendants
- Greek: πείνα (peína)
References
- πεῖνα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πεῖνα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πεῖνα 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