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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a hypothetical u-stem *πελύς (*pelús, “gray”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“gray”). Compare Latin palumbēs (“dove”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pé.leː.a/ → /ˈpe.li.a/ → /ˈpe.li.a/
Noun
πέλειᾰ • (péleiă) f (genitive πελείᾱς); first declension
- rock pigeon
- a prophetic priestess of Dodona (usually in plural)
Inflection
References
Further reading
- “πέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέλεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πέλεια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.