πέλαγος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUncertain. Some suggest the source is Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), whereas others such as Beekes suggest a non-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pé.la.ɡos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.ɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.ɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.ɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpe.la.ɣos/
Noun
editπέλᾰγος • (pélagos) n (genitive πελᾰ́γους); third declension
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πέλᾰγος tò pélagos |
τὼ πελᾰ́γει tṑ pelágei |
τᾰ̀ πελᾰ́γη tà pelágē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πελᾰ́γους toû pelágous |
τοῖν πελᾰγοῖν toîn pelagoîn |
τῶν πελᾰγῶν tôn pelagôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πελᾰ́γει tôi pelágei |
τοῖν πελᾰγοῖν toîn pelagoîn |
τοῖς πελᾰ́γεσῐ / πελᾰ́γεσῐν toîs pelágesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πέλᾰγος tò pélagos |
τὼ πελᾰ́γει tṑ pelágei |
τᾰ̀ πελᾰ́γη tà pelágē | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέλᾰγος pélagos |
πελᾰ́γει pelágei |
πελᾰ́γη pelágē | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- Greek: πέλαγος (pélagos)
- → Albanian: pellg
- → Latin: pelagus (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: պեղագոս (pełagos)
Further reading
edit- “πέλαγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πέλαγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πέλαγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πέλαγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πέλαγος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”).
Noun
editπέλαγος • (pélagos) n (plural πελάγη)
- sea (Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian, etc.)
Usage notes
edit- ωκεανός m (okeanós, “ocean”) (e.g. Atlantic, Pacific)
- θάλασσα f (thálassa, “larger sea”) (e.g. Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean)
- πέλαγος n (pélagos, “smaller sea”) (e.g. Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian)
Declension
editDeclension of πέλαγος
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- Αιγαίο πέλαγος n (Aigaío pélagos)
Descendants
edit- → Ladino: pelagos
Further reading
edit- πέλαγος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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