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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pêː.ra/ → /ˈpi.ra/ → /ˈpi.ra/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Hellenic *peřřa, from Proto-Indo-European *pér-ih₂ ~ *pr̥-yéh₂s, from *per- (“to try, risk”) + *-ih₂. Cognate with Old Armenian փորձ (pʻorj, “attempt, try”), Latin perīculum (“trial, risk”), Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”).
Noun
πεῖρᾰ • (peîra) f (genitive πείρᾱς); first declension
- trial, experiment, attempt
Inflection
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
πεῖρα • (peîra)
- (Epic) first-person singular aorist present active unaugmented of πείρω (peírō)
Further reading
- “πεῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πεῖρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πεῖρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “πεῖρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3984 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- attempt idem, page 50.
- effort idem, page 263.
- endeavour idem, page 272.
- enterprise idem, page 277.
- essay idem, page 282.
- experiment idem, page 294.
- foretaste idem, page 337.
- proof idem, page 653.
- test idem, page 863.
- trial idem, page 893.
- trying idem, page 899.
- undertaking idem, page 914.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) 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 1162f
- πεῖρα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.