πετεινός
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From πέτομαι (pétomai, “to fly”) from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti from the root *peth₂- (literally “to spread one’s wings”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.teː.nós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.tiˈnos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.tiˈnos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.tiˈnos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.tiˈnos/
Adjective
πετεινός • (peteinós) m (feminine πετεινή, neuter πετεινόν); first/second declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | πετεινός peteinós |
πετεινή peteinḗ |
πετεινόν peteinón |
πετεινώ peteinṓ |
πετεινᾱ́ peteinā́ |
πετεινώ peteinṓ |
πετεινοί peteinoí |
πετειναί peteinaí |
πετεινᾰ́ peteiná | |||||
| Genitive | πετεινοῦ peteinoû |
πετεινῆς peteinês |
πετεινοῦ peteinoû |
πετεινοῖν peteinoîn |
πετειναῖν peteinaîn |
πετεινοῖν peteinoîn |
πετεινῶν peteinôn |
πετεινῶν peteinôn |
πετεινῶν peteinôn | |||||
| Dative | πετεινῷ peteinôi |
πετεινῇ peteinêi |
πετεινῷ peteinôi |
πετεινοῖν peteinoîn |
πετειναῖν peteinaîn |
πετεινοῖν peteinoîn |
πετεινοῖς peteinoîs |
πετειναῖς peteinaîs |
πετεινοῖς peteinoîs | |||||
| Accusative | πετεινόν peteinón |
πετεινήν peteinḗn |
πετεινόν peteinón |
πετεινώ peteinṓ |
πετεινᾱ́ peteinā́ |
πετεινώ peteinṓ |
πετεινούς peteinoús |
πετεινᾱ́ς peteinā́s |
πετεινᾰ́ peteiná | |||||
| Vocative | πετεινέ peteiné |
πετεινή peteinḗ |
πετεινόν peteinón |
πετεινώ peteinṓ |
πετεινᾱ́ peteinā́ |
πετεινώ peteinṓ |
πετεινοί peteinoí |
πετειναί peteinaí |
πετεινᾰ́ peteiná | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| πετεινῶς peteinôs |
πετεινότερος peteinóteros |
πετεινότᾰτος peteinótatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: πετεινός (peteinós)
Further reading
- “πετεινός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “πετεινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πετεινός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πετεινός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πετεινός 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
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek πετεινός (peteinós) from πέτομαι (pétomai, “to fly”) from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti from the root *peth₂- (literally “to spread one’s wings”).
Noun
πετεινός • (peteinós) m (plural πετεινοί)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | πετεινός (peteinós) | πετεινοί (peteinoí) |
| genitive | πετεινού (peteinoú) | πετεινών (peteinón) |
| accusative | πετεινό (peteinó) | πετεινούς (peteinoús) |
| vocative | πετεινέ (peteiné) | πετεινοί (peteinoí) |
Synonyms
- see: κόκορας m (kókoras)
Derived terms
- είπε ο γάιδαρος τον πετεινό κεφάλα (eípe o gáidaros ton peteinó kefála, “the pot calling the kettle black”)
- τσαλαπετεινός m (tsalapeteinós, “hoopoe”)
Related terms
Further reading
πετεινός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
