πτέρνα
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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ptér.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpter.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpter.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpter.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpter.na/
Noun
πτέρνᾰ • (ptérna) f (genitive πτέρνης); first declension
- Alternative form of πτέρνη (ptérnē, “heel”)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πτέρνᾰ hē ptérna |
τὼ πτέρνᾱ tṑ ptérnā |
αἱ πτέρναι hai ptérnai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πτέρνης tês ptérnēs |
τοῖν πτέρναιν toîn ptérnain |
τῶν πτερνῶν tôn pternôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πτέρνῃ têi ptérnēi |
τοῖν πτέρναιν toîn ptérnain |
ταῖς πτέρναις taîs ptérnais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πτέρνᾰν tḕn ptérnan |
τὼ πτέρνᾱ tṑ ptérnā |
τᾱ̀ς πτέρνᾱς tā̀s ptérnās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πτέρνᾰ ptérna |
πτέρνᾱ ptérnā |
πτέρναι ptérnai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: φτέρνα (ftérna)
Further reading
- “πτέρνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πτέρνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4418 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.
- heel idem, page 394.
Greek
Noun
πτέρνα • (ptérna) f (plural πτέρνες)
- Alternative form of φτέρνα (ftérna)
Declension
declension of πτέρνα
Further reading
πτέρνα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
