Πηνειός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“mire, bog”).[1] Cognate with Latin Pannonia, Old Prussian pannean (“bog”), Middle Irish en (“water”), Dutch veen, Old English fenn (English fen).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Πηνειός • (Pēneiós) m (genitive Πηνειοῦ); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Peneus, a river god
  2. the river Peneus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πηνειός; τοῦ Πηνειοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Πηνειός
ho Pēneiós
Genitive τοῦ Πηνειοῦ
toû Pēneioû
Dative τῷ Πηνειῷ
tōî Pēneiōî
Accusative τὸν Πηνειόν
tòn Pēneión
Vocative Πηνειέ
Pēneié
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Πηνειός (Pineiós)
  • Latin: Pēnēus

References

  1. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek Πηνειός (Pēneiós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi.niˈos/
  • Hyphenation: Πη‧νει‧ός

Proper noun

Πηνειός • (Pineiós) m

  1. Pineios (the chief river of Thessaly, Greece, which rises in the Pindus mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea)
  2. Pineios (a river in Elis regional unit, northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, which flows into the Ionian Sea)

Declension

Declension of Πηνειός
singular plural
nominative Πηνειός (Pineiós) Πηνειοί (Pineioí)
genitive Πηνειού (Pineioú) Πηνειών (Pineión)
accusative Πηνειό (Pineió) Πηνειούς (Pineioús)
vocative Πηνειέ (Pineié) Πηνειοί (Pineioí)

Further reading

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