πέλεκκον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πέλεκκος (pélekkos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin due to the presence of a geminate "-κκ-". Furnée compares the word with πέλεκυς (pélekus, “battle axe”) and βέλεκκος (bélekkos, “kind of pulse”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pé.lek.kon/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.lek.kon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le.kon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le.kon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.le.kon/

Noun

πέλεκκον • (pélekkon) n (genitive πελέκκου); second declension

handle of an axe

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πέλεκκον; τοῦ πελέκκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέλεκκον tò pélekkon	τὼ πελέκκω tṑ pelékkō	τᾰ̀ πέλεκκᾰ tà pélekka
Genitive	τοῦ πελέκκου toû pelékkou	τοῖν πελέκκοιν toîn pelékkoin	τῶν πελέκκων tôn pelékkōn
Dative	τῷ πελέκκῳ tôi pelékkōi	τοῖν πελέκκοιν toîn pelékkoin	τοῖς πελέκκοις toîs pelékkois
Accusative	τὸ πέλεκκον tò pélekkon	τὼ πελέκκω tṑ pelékkō	τᾰ̀ πέλεκκᾰ tà pélekka
Vocative	πέλεκκον pélekkon	πελέκκω pelékkō	πέλεκκᾰ pélekka
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἡμιπέλεκκον (hēmipélekkon)

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