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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pre-Greek. Or from Semitic origin perah Ishtar ("a bird of goddess Ishtar").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.ris.te.rǎː/ → /pe.ris.teˈra/ → /pe.ris.teˈra/
Noun
περιστερᾱ́ • (peristerā́) f (genitive περιστερᾶς); first declension
- pigeon, dove
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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.
Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
περιστερά • (peristerá) f (plural περιστερές)
- (learned) pigeon
- (religion) the dove (representing the Holy Spirit; the bird released by Noah)
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