πελεκᾶς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from the same Pre-Greek root of other similar bird names, like πελεκανός (pelekanós, “coot”), πελεκάν (pelekán, “pelican”) and πελεκῖνος (pelekînos, “pelican”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.le.kâːs/ → /pe.leˈkas/ → /pe.leˈkas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.le.kâːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈkas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈkas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈkas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈkas/

Noun

πελεκᾶς • (pelekâs) m (genitive πελεκᾶντος); third declension

1. kind of woodpecker

Declension

Third declension of ὁ πελεκᾶς; τοῦ πελεκᾶντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πελεκᾶς ho pelekâs	τὼ πελεκᾶντε tṑ pelekânte	οἱ πελεκᾶντες hoi pelekântes
Genitive	τοῦ πελεκᾶντος toû pelekântos	τοῖν πελεκᾱ́ντοιν toîn pelekā́ntoin	τῶν πελεκᾱ́ντων tôn pelekā́ntōn
Dative	τῷ πελεκᾶντῐ tôi pelekânti	τοῖν πελεκᾱ́ντοιν toîn pelekā́ntoin	τοῖς πελεκᾶσῐ / πελεκᾶσῐν toîs pelekâsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πελεκᾶντᾰ tòn pelekânta	τὼ πελεκᾶντε tṑ pelekânte	τοὺς πελεκᾶντᾰς toùs pelekântas
Vocative	πελεκᾶν pelekân	πελεκᾶντε pelekânte	πελεκᾶντες pelekântes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πελεκᾶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πελεκᾶς 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