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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of πελεκᾶς (pelekâs, “kind of woodpecker”), πελεκανός (pelekanós, “coot”) and πελεκάν (pelekán, “pelican”), presumably of shape *pilik-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.le.kîː.nos/ → /pe.leˈci.nos/ → /pe.leˈci.nos/
Noun
πελεκῖνος • (pelekînos) m (genitive πελεκῑ́νου); second declension
- pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
- Synonyms: ὀνοκρότᾰλος (onokrótalos), πελεκᾰ́ν (pelekán)
- crownvetch (Securigera varia)
- dovetail, culvertail
Inflection
Further reading
- “πελεκῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πελεκῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πελεκάν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1166