πεῖνα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • πείνη (peínē) — Ionic

Etymology

Unknown. Furnée compares ἠπανάω (ēpanáō, “to be in want”), but this is rather doubtful. Beekes suspects a Pre-Greek borrowing, particularly if -α (-a) was the original suffix.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

πεῖνᾰ • (peînă) f (genitive πείνης); first declension

  1. hunger, famine, starvation
    Synonym: λῑμός (līmós)
  2. hunger or longing for a thing

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πεῖνᾰ; τῆς πείνης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ πεῖνᾰ
hē peînă 		τὼ πείνᾱ
tṑ peínā 		αἱ πεῖναι
hai peînai
Genitive τῆς πείνης
tês peínēs 		τοῖν πείναιν
toîn peínain 		τῶν πεινῶν
tôn peinôn
Dative τῇ πείνῃ
tēî peínēi 		τοῖν πείναιν
toîn peínain 		ταῖς πείναις
taîs peínais
Accusative τὴν πεῖνᾰν
tḕn peînăn 		τὼ πείνᾱ
tṑ peínā 		τᾱ̀ς πείνᾱς
tā̀s peínās
Vocative πεῖνᾰ
peînă 		πείνᾱ
peínā 		πεῖναι
peînai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • γεωπείνης (geōpeínēs)
  • ὀξύπεινος (oxúpeinos)
  • πειναλέος (peinaléos)
  • πεινάω (peináō)
  • πεινητικός (peinētikós)
  • πεινώδης (peinṓdēs)
  • πεινωλκός (peinōlkós)
  • πρόσπεινος (próspeinos)

Descendants

  • Greek: πείνα (peína)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πείνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1162

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