περιστερά

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See also: περιστέρα and Περιστερά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.ris.te.rǎː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.ris.teˈra/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.ris.teˈra/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ris.teˈra/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ris.teˈra/

Noun

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

pigeon, dove

Inflection

First declension of ἡ περιστερᾱ́; τῆς περιστερᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ περιστερᾱ́ hē peristerā́	τὼ περιστερᾱ́ tṑ peristerā́	αἱ περιστεραί hai peristeraí
Genitive	τῆς περιστερᾶς tês peristerâs	τοῖν περιστεραῖν toîn peristeraîn	τῶν περιστερῶν tôn peristerôn
Dative	τῇ περιστερᾷ têi peristerâi	τοῖν περιστεραῖν toîn peristeraîn	ταῖς περιστεραῖς taîs peristeraîs
Accusative	τὴν περιστερᾱ́ν tḕn peristerā́n	τὼ περιστερᾱ́ tṑ peristerā́	τᾱ̀ς περιστερᾱ́ς tā̀s peristerā́s
Vocative	περιστερᾱ́ peristerā́	περιστερᾱ́ peristerā́	περιστεραί peristeraí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

περιστερεών (peristereṓn)
περιστερῐδεύς (peristerideús)
περιστερῐ́δῐον (peristerídion)
περιστέρῐον (peristérion)
περιστερῐ́ς (peristerís)
περιστεροειδής (peristeroeidḗs)
περιστερόεις (peristeróeis)
περιστεροποιός (peristeropoiós)
περιστεροπώλης (peristeropṓlēs)
περιστερός (peristerós)
περιστεροτροφεῖον (peristerotropheîon)
περιστεροτρόφος (peristerotróphos)
περιστερώδης (peristerṓdēs)
περιστερών (peristerṓn)

Descendants

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

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “περιστερά”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1177

Further reading

“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.

Greek

Alternative forms

περιστέρι n (peristéri) (the usual form)

Noun

περιστερά • (peristerá) f (plural περιστερές)

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

Declension

Declension of **περιστερά**
	singular	plural
nominative	περιστερά (peristerá)	περιστερές (peristerés)
genitive	περιστεράς (peristerás)	περιστερών (peristerón)
accusative	περιστερά (peristerá)	περιστερές (peristerés)
vocative	περιστερά (peristerá)	περιστερές (peristerés)

Related terms

see: περιστέρι n (peristéri, “pigeon”)

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