πέζις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”), the same root of Latin pēdō (“to fart”) and βδέω (bdéō, “to break wind”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /péz.dis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.zis/
Noun
πέζῐς • (pézĭs) f (genitive πέζεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ πέζῐς hē pézĭs |
τὼ πέζει tṑ pézei |
αἱ πέζεις hai pézeis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς πέζεως tês pézeōs |
τοῖν πεζέοιν toîn pezéoin |
τῶν πέζεων tôn pézeōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ πέζει tēî pézei |
τοῖν πεζέοιν toîn pezéoin |
ταῖς πέζεσῐ / πέζεσῐν taîs pézesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν πέζῐν tḕn pézĭn |
τὼ πέζει tṑ pézei |
τᾱ̀ς πέζεις tā̀s pézeis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πέζῐ pézĭ |
πέζει pézei |
πέζεις pézeis | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “πέζις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πέζις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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