πεῖ
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See also: πει
Ancient Greek
| previous letter ὂ μικρόν |
 
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following letter ῥῶ |
| Π π – English: pi | ||
Alternative forms
- πῖ (pî)
Etymology
Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤐 (p /pē/).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pêː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi/
Noun
πεῖ • (peî) n (indeclinable)
- pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
Descendants
References
- “πεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette