πιστάκη

Ancient Greek

Of Iranian origin. Compare Northern Kurdish pisteq, Persian (pesta, peste), Middle Persian pstk' (pistag, “pistachio nut”), Old Armenian պիստակ (pistak) (from Iranian).^[1]

πῐστᾰ́κη • (pĭstắkē) f (genitive πῐστᾰ́κης); first declension

First declension of ἡ πῐστᾰ́κη; τῆς πῐστᾰ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐστᾰ́κη hē pĭstắkē	τὼ πῐστᾰ́κᾱ tṑ pĭstắkā	αἱ πῐστᾰ́και hai pĭstắkai
Genitive	τῆς πῐστᾰ́κης tês pĭstắkēs	τοῖν πῐστᾰ́καιν toîn pĭstắkain	τῶν πῐστᾰκῶν tôn pĭstăkôn
Dative	τῇ πῐστᾰ́κῃ tēî pĭstắkēi	τοῖν πῐστᾰ́καιν toîn pĭstắkain	ταῖς πῐστᾰ́καις taîs pĭstắkais
Accusative	τὴν πῐστᾰ́κην tḕn pĭstắkēn	τὼ πῐστᾰ́κᾱ tṑ pĭstắkā	τᾱ̀ς πῐστᾰ́κᾱς tā̀s pĭstắkās
Vocative	πῐστᾰ́κη pĭstắkē	πῐστᾰ́κᾱ pĭstắkā	πῐστᾰ́και pĭstắkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πιστάκη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1197