πέλεια

Ancient Greek

From a hypothetical u-stem *πελύς (*pelús, “gray”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“gray”). Compare Latin palumbēs (“dove”).^[1]

πέλειᾰ • (péleiă) f (genitive πελείᾱς); first declension

First declension of ἡ πέλειᾰ; τῆς πελείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πέλειᾰ hē péleiă	τὼ πελείᾱ tṑ peleíā	αἱ πέλειαι hai péleiai
Genitive	τῆς πελείᾱς tês peleíās	τοῖν πελείαιν toîn peleíain	τῶν πελειῶν tôn peleiôn
Dative	τῇ πελείᾳ tēî peleíāi	τοῖν πελείαιν toîn peleíain	ταῖς πελείαις taîs peleíais
Accusative	τὴν πέλειᾰν tḕn péleiăn	τὼ πελείᾱ tṑ peleíā	τᾱ̀ς πελείᾱς tā̀s peleíās
Vocative	πέλειᾰ péleiă	πελείᾱ peleíā	πέλειαι péleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ 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, page 1166

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“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
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- dove idem, page 248.