περιστερά

Pre-Greek.^[1] Or from Semitic origin perah Ishtar ("a bird of goddess Ishtar").

περιστερᾱ́ • (peristerā́) f (genitive περιστερᾶς); first declension

1. pigeon, dove

• English: peristeria, peristerion, peristerite, peristeronic, peristeropodous, philoperisteron

• “περιστερά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “περιστερά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• περιστερά 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
• G4058 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• περιστερά 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dove idem, page 248.

• περιστέρι n (peristéri) (the usual form)

περιστερά • (peristerá) f (plural περιστερές)

1. (learned) pigeon
2. (religion) the dove (representing the Holy Spirit; the bird released by Noah)

• see: περιστέρι n (peristéri, “pigeon”)