Πυρήνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Said by Herodotus and Pliny to be from Celtic.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.rɛ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈre̝.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈri.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈri.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈri.ni/
Proper noun
Πῡρήνη • (Pūrḗnē) f (genitive Πῡρήνης); first declension
- the Pyrenees mountains
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Πῡρήνη; τῆς Πῡρήνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Πῡρήνη hē Pūrḗnē | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Πῡρήνης tês Pūrḗnēs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Πῡρήνῃ têi Pūrḗnēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Πῡρήνην tḕn Pūrḗnēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πῡρήνη Pūrḗnē | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Πῡρηναῖᾰ (Pūrēnaîa)
- Πῡρηναῖος (Pūrēnaîos)
Descendants
- Aragonese: Perinés
- Basque: Pirinioak
- Catalan: Pirineus
- English: Pyrenees
- French: Pyrénées
- Greek: Πυρήνη (Pyríni)
- Latin: Pȳrēnē
- Occitan: Pirenèus
- Spanish: Pirineos
Further reading
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
- Πυρήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette