Πηνειός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“mire, bog”). Cognate with Latin Pannonia, Old Prussian pannean (“bog”), Middle Irish en (“water”), Dutch veen, Old English fenn (English fen).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛː.neː.ós/ → /pi.niˈos/ → /pi.niˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛː.neː.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝.niˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/

Proper noun

Πηνειός • (Pēneiós) m (genitive Πηνειοῦ); second declension

1. (Greek mythology) Peneus, a river god
2. the river Peneus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πηνειός; τοῦ Πηνειοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πηνειός ho Pēneiós
Genitive	τοῦ Πηνειοῦ toû Pēneioû
Dative	τῷ Πηνειῷ tôi Pēneiôi
Accusative	τὸν Πηνειόν tòn Pēneión
Vocative	Πηνειέ Pēneié
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Πηνειός (Pineiós)
• Latin: Pēnēus

Further reading

• “Πηνειός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Πηνειός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek Πηνειός (Pēneiós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.niˈos/
• Hyphenation: Πη‧νει‧ός

Proper noun

Πηνειός • (Pineiós) m

1. Pineios (the chief river of Thessaly, Greece, which rises in the Pindus mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea)
2. Pineios (a river in Elis, northwestern Peloponnese, Greece, which flows into the Ionian Sea)

Declension

Declension of Πηνειός

	singular	plural
nominative	Πηνειός •	Πηνειοί •
genitive	Πηνειού •	Πηνειών •
accusative	Πηνειό •	Πηνειούς •
vocative	Πηνειέ •	Πηνειοί •

Further reading

• Πηνειός (Θεσσαλία) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• Πηνειός (Ηλεία) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el