πεῖ

See also: πει

Ancient Greek

previous letter ὂ μικρόν		following letter ῥῶ
Π π – English: pi

Alternative forms

πῖ (pî)

Etymology

Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤐 (p‬ /⁠pē⁠/).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pêː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi/

Noun

πεῖ • (peî) n (indeclinable)

pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the Ancient Greek alphabet.

Descendants

Greek: πι (pi)
→ Finnish: pii

References

“πεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette