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Ancient Greek
Etymology
An Aristotelian term, attested in the Historia Animalorum (9.36), but corrupted in manuscript tradition, which also records περνίς (pernís), πτερνίς (pternís) and πέρκνης (pérknēs).
Theodorus Gaza, an early translator of Aristotle, renders the Greek term as Latin pernix.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pér.nɛːs/ → /ˈper.nis/ → /ˈper.nis/
Noun
πέρνης • (pérnēs) m (genitive πέρνου); first declension
- a bird of prey, a kind of hawk
384 BCE – 322 BCE,
Aristotle,
History of Animals 9.36:
- Ὁ δὲ ἀστερίας καὶ ὁ φασσοφόνος καὶ ὁ πέρνης ἀλλοῖοι.
- Ho dè asterías kaì ho phassophónos kaì ho pérnēs alloîoi.
- Other species are the starred , the dove-killing and the pérnēs .
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- Pierre Belon, L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, 1997, p. 410
Further reading
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πέρνης”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “πέρνης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011