πέλλυτρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πελλασταί (pellastaí), πελλύτα (pellúta), πελλύτευμα (pellúteuma)

Etymology

Traditionally analyzed as *πεδ-ϝλῡ-τρα (*ped-wlū-tra), a compound of πούς (poús, “foot”) +‎ ἔλυτρον (élutron, “covering”). Nevertheless, monosyllabic ϝλυ- and its length are surprising.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pél.lyː.tra/ → /ˈpel.ly.tra/ → /ˈpe.li.tra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pél.lyː.tra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.ly.tra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.ly.tra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.ly.tra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.li.tra/

Noun

πέλλῡτρᾰ • (péllūtra) n pl (genitive πελλῡ́τρων); second declension

1. sock or bandage worn by runners on the ankle

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ πέλλῡτρᾰ; τῶν πελλῡ́τρων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ πέλλῡτρᾰ tà péllūtra
Genitive	τῶν πελλῡ́τρων tôn pellū́trōn
Dative	τοῖς πελλῡ́τροις toîs pellū́trois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ πέλλῡτρᾰ tà péllūtra
Vocative	πέλλῡτρᾰ péllūtra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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