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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πείθω (peíthō, “I persuade”) + -ιᾰ (-ia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pêː.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/
Noun
πεῖσᾰ • (peîsa) f (genitive πείσης); first declension
- obedience
Inflection
Synonyms
References
- “πεῖσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πεῖσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πεῖσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πεῖσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πεῖσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- πεῖσα 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