πελιός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πελιδνός (pelidnós) Sanskrit पलित (palitá), Latin pallidus and Old Armenian ալիք (alikʻ, “wave, gray hair”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pe.li.ós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pe.liˈos/
Adjective
πελῐός • (pelĭós) m (feminine πελῐᾱ́, neuter πελῐόν); first/second declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | πελῐός pelĭós |
πελῐᾱ́ pelĭā́ |
πελῐόν pelĭón |
πελῐώ pelĭṓ |
πελῐᾱ́ pelĭā́ |
πελῐώ pelĭṓ |
πελῐοί pelĭoí |
πελῐαί pelĭaí |
πελῐᾰ́ pelĭắ | |||||
| Genitive | πελῐοῦ pelĭoû |
πελῐᾶς pelĭâs |
πελῐοῦ pelĭoû |
πελῐοῖν pelĭoîn |
πελῐαῖν pelĭaîn |
πελῐοῖν pelĭoîn |
πελῐῶν pelĭôn |
πελῐῶν pelĭôn |
πελῐῶν pelĭôn | |||||
| Dative | πελῐῷ pelĭōî |
πελῐᾷ pelĭāî |
πελῐῷ pelĭōî |
πελῐοῖν pelĭoîn |
πελῐαῖν pelĭaîn |
πελῐοῖν pelĭoîn |
πελῐοῖς pelĭoîs |
πελῐαῖς pelĭaîs |
πελῐοῖς pelĭoîs | |||||
| Accusative | πελῐόν pelĭón |
πελῐᾱ́ν pelĭā́n |
πελῐόν pelĭón |
πελῐώ pelĭṓ |
πελῐᾱ́ pelĭā́ |
πελῐώ pelĭṓ |
πελῐούς pelĭoús |
πελῐᾱ́ς pelĭā́s |
πελῐᾰ́ pelĭắ | |||||
| Vocative | πελῐέ pelĭé |
πελῐᾱ́ pelĭā́ |
πελῐόν pelĭón |
πελῐώ pelĭṓ |
πελῐᾱ́ pelĭā́ |
πελῐώ pelĭṓ |
πελῐοί pelĭoí |
πελῐαί pelĭaí |
πελῐᾰ́ pelĭắ | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| πελῐῶς pelĭôs |
πελῐώτερος pelĭṓteros |
πελῐώτᾰτος pelĭṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πελιαίνομαι (peliaínomai)
- πελιόομαι (pelióomai)
- πελιότης (peliótēs)
- πελιώδης (peliṓdēs)
- πελίωμα (pelíōma)
- πελίωσις (pelíōsis)
Further reading
- “πελιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πελιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πελιός 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