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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Kinship term without certain connection. It has often been connected with Latin pār (“equal, even”), but this is formally not compelling. Unrelated to πηΐσκος (pēḯskos, “son, offspring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛː.ós/ → /piˈos/ → /piˈos/
Noun
πηός • (pēós) m (genitive πηοῦ); second declension
- kinsman by marriage or alliance
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References
- “πηός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πηός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πηός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πηός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πηός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN