Πειραιεύς
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- Πειραεύς (Peiraeús)
Etymology edit
The name roughly translates as "the place over the passage."
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pi.rɛˈews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pi.rɛˈeɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pi.reˈefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi.reˈefs/
Proper noun edit
Πειραιεύς • (Peiraieús) m (genitive Πειραιῶς); third declension
- Piraeus, Athens, Attica, Greece
Inflection edit
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Πειραιεύς ho Peiraieús | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Πειραιέως / Πειραιῶς toû Peiraiéōs / Peiraiôs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Πειραιεῖ tôi Peiraieî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Πειραιέᾱ / Πειραιᾶ tòn Peiraiéā / Peiraiâ | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Πειραιεῦ Peiraieû | ||||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- → Arabic: بيرايوس
- → Bulgarian: Пирея (Pireja)
- → Catalan: Pireu
- → Czech: Pireus
- → Danish: Piræus
- → Dutch: Piraeus
- → Estonian: Pireus
- → Finnish: Pireus
- → French: Pirée
- → German: Piräus
- Greek: Πειραιεύς (Peiraiéfs), Πειραιάς (Peiraiás)
- → Hebrew: פיראוס
- → Italian: Pireo
- → Japanese: ピレウス
- → Latin: Piraeus
- → Latvian: Pireja
- → Lithuanian: Pirėjas
- → Lombard: Piraeus
- → Luxembourgish: Piräus
- → Norwegian: Pireus
- → Polish: Pireus
- → Portuguese: Pireu
- → Romanian: Pireu
- → Russian: Пирей (Pirej)
- → Samogitian: Piriejos
- → Slovak: Pireus
- → Spanish: Pireo
- → Swedish: Pireus
- → Turkish: Pire
- → Ukrainian: Пірей (Pirej)
- → Welsh: Piraeus
References edit
- “Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "The Port of Piraeus Through The Ages". greece.org.
Further reading edit
Πειραιεύς on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
