Πειραιεύς

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Ancient Greek

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Piraeus

Alternative forms

Πειραεύς (Peiraeús)

Etymology

Derived from πέρα (péra, “beyond”). The name roughly translates as "the place over the passage."

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.rɛˈews/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.rɛˈeɸs/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈefs/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈefs/

Proper noun

Πειραιεύς • (Peiraieús) m (genitive Πειραιῶς); third declension

Piraeus, Athens, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Πειραιεύς; τοῦ Πειραιέως (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πειραιεύς ho Peiraieús
Genitive	τοῦ Πειραιέως / Πειραιῶς toû Peiraiéōs / Peiraiôs
Dative	τῷ Πειραιεῖ tôi Peiraieî
Accusative	τὸν Πειραιέᾱ / Πειραιᾶ tòn Peiraiéā / Peiraiâ
Vocative	Πειραιεῦ Peiraieû
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The first form is uncontracted, the second contracted.

Descendants

References

“Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
"The Port of Piraeus Through The Ages". greece.org.

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