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Ancient Greek
Etymology
περίοικος (períoikos) + -ίς (-ís)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.ri.oi̯.kís/ → /pe.ri.yˈcis/ → /pe.ri.iˈcis/
Noun
περῐοικίς • (perioikís) f (genitive περῐοικίδος); third declension
- the country around a town; a suburb, Umland
- a dependent town
Usage notes
Also used adjectivally as a feminine of περίοικος (períoikos, “dwelling or lying round about, neighbouring”).
Declension
Further reading
- περιοικίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- περιοικίς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “περιοικίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.