πίθηκος
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. Commonly connected with Latin foedus (“ugly”). Beekes argues for an origin as a substrate loan-word or perhaps Pre-Greek. The same suffix can be found in ἱέραξ (hiérax, “falcon”) and μύρμηξ (múrmēx, “ant”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pí.tʰɛː.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.tʰe̝.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
Noun
πῐ́θηκος • (píthēkos) m (genitive πῐθήκου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πῐ́θηκος ho píthēkos |
τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō |
οἱ πῐ́θηκοι hoi píthēkoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ πῐθήκου toû pithḗkou |
τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin |
τῶν πῐθήκων tôn pithḗkōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ πῐθήκῳ tôi pithḗkōi |
τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin |
τοῖς πῐθήκοις toîs pithḗkois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πῐ́θηκον tòn píthēkon |
τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō |
τοὺς πῐθήκους toùs pithḗkous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πῐ́θηκε píthēke |
πῐθήκω pithḗkō |
πῐ́θηκοι píthēkoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- δημοπῐ́θηκος (dēmopíthēkos)
- κερκοπῐ́θηκος (kerkopíthēkos)
- πῐθήκειος (pithḗkeios)
- πῐθήκη (pithḗkē)
- πῐθηκῐδεύς (pithēkideús)
- πῐθηκῐ́ζω (pithēkízō)
- πῐθήκῐον (pithḗkion)
- πῐθηκῐσμός (pithēkismós)
- πῐθηκοειδής (pithēkoeidḗs)
- πῐθηκόμορφος (pithēkómorphos)
- πῐθηκοφᾰγέω (pithēkophagéō)
- πῐθηκοφόρος (pithēkophóros)
- πῐθηκώδης (pithēkṓdēs)
- τρῐπῐθήκῐνος (tripithḗkinos)
- χοιροπῐ́θηκος (khoiropíthēkos)
Descendants
- Greek: πίθηκος (píthikos)
- → English: pitheco-
- → Latin: pithēcus
- → Russian: пите́к (piték)
- → Translingual: Pithecus, -pithecus
- → Sicilian: pitecu, pitichinu
References
- “πίθηκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πίθηκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πίθηκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos).
Noun
πίθηκος • (píthikos) m (plural πίθηκοι)
- ape, monkey
- an uncivilised person
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | πίθηκος (píthikos) | πίθηκοι (píthikoi) |
| genitive | πίθηκου (píthikou) πιθήκου (pithíkou) |
πίθηκων (píthikon) πιθήκων (pithíkon) |
| accusative | πίθηκο (píthiko) | πίθηκους (píthikous) πιθήκους (pithíkous) |
| vocative | πίθηκε (píthike) | πίθηκοι (píthikoi) |
Second forms are formal.
Further reading
πίθηκος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
