πέος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *péhos, from Proto-Indo-European *pésos, from *pes-. Cognates include Latin pēnis and Sanskrit पसस् (pásas).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.os/
Noun
πέος • (péos) n (genitive πέους); third declension
- penis
- 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 124:
- ἀφεκτέα τοίνυν ἐστὶν ἡμῖν τοῦ πέους.
τί μοι μεταστρέφεσθε; ποῖ βαδίζετε;
αὗται τί μοιμυᾶτε κἀνανεύετε;- aphektéa toínun estìn hēmîn toû péous.
tí moi metastréphesthe? poî badízete?
haûtai tí moimuâte kananeúete? - Well then, we must abstain from cock.
—Why do you turn away? Where are you off to?
Why do you grimace like that and shake your heads?
- aphektéa toínun estìn hēmîn toû péous.
- ἀφεκτέα τοίνυν ἐστὶν ἡμῖν τοῦ πέους.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ πέος tò péos |
τὼ πέει tṑ péei |
τᾰ̀ πέη tà péē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πέους toû péous |
τοῖν πεοῖν toîn peoîn |
τῶν πεῶν tôn peôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πέει tôi péei |
τοῖν πεοῖν toîn peoîn |
τοῖς πέεσῐ / πέεσῐν toîs péesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ πέος tò péos |
τὼ πέει tṑ péei |
τᾰ̀ πέη tà péē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πέος péos |
πέει péei |
πέη péē | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πέος (péos)
Further reading
- “πέος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πέος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πέος (péos).
Pronunciation
Noun
- penis
- Το πέος είναι το έξω γεννητικό όργανο του άρρενος τόσο στον άνθρωπο όσο και στα ζώα.
- To péos eínai to éxo gennitikó órgano tou árrenos tóso ston ánthropo óso kai sta zóa.
- The penis is the external sexual organ of the male in both humans and animals.
Declension
declension of πέος
Synonyms
- ανδρικό μόριο n (andrikó mório, “male member”) (euphemistic)
- τσουτσούνι n (tsoutsoúni) (colloquial, childish)
- πουλί n (poulí) (colloquial, childish)
- πούτσος m (poútsos) (colloquial, vulgar)
- καυλί n (kavlí) (colloquial, vulgar)
- ψωλή f (psolí) (colloquial, vulgar)
- μαλαπέρδα f (malapérda) (colloquial, vulgar)
Derived terms
- πεολειξία f (peoleixía, “fellatio”)
See also
- φαλλός m (fallós, “phallus”)
Further reading
πέος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
