πέος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *péhos, from Proto-Indo-European *pésos, from *pes-. Cognates include Latin pēnis and Sanskrit पसस् (pásas).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.os/ → /ˈpe.os/ → /ˈpe.os/

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

Noun

πέος • (péos) n (genitive πέους); third declension

1. penis
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 124:

     ἀφεκτέα τοίνυν ἐστὶν ἡμῖν τοῦ πέους.
     τί μοι μεταστρέφεσθε; ποῖ βαδίζετε;
     αὗται τί μοιμυᾶτε κἀνανεύετε;

     aphektéa toínun estìn hēmîn toû péous.
     tí moi metastréphesthe? poî badízete?
     haûtai tí moimuâte kananeúete?

     Well then, we must abstain from cock.
     —Why do you turn away? Where are you off to?
     Why do you grimace like that and shake your heads?

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πέος; τοῦ πέους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέος tò péos	τὼ πέει tṑ péei	τᾰ̀ πέη tà péē
Genitive	τοῦ πέους toû péous	τοῖν πεοῖν toîn peoîn	τῶν πεῶν tôn peôn
Dative	τῷ πέει tôi péei	τοῖν πεοῖν toîn peoîn	τοῖς πέεσῐ / πέεσῐν toîs péesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πέος tò péos	τὼ πέει tṑ péei	τᾰ̀ πέη tà péē
Vocative	πέος péos	πέει péei	πέη péē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πέος (péos)

Further reading

• “πέος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέος (péos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeos/
• Hyphenation: πέ‧ος
• Rhymes: -eos

Noun

πέος • (péos) n (plural πέη)

1. penis

   Το πέος είναι το έξω γεννητικό όργανο του άρρενος τόσο στον άνθρωπο όσο και στα ζώα.

   To péos eínai to éxo gennitikó órgano tou árrenos tóso ston ánthropo óso kai sta zóa.

   The penis is the external sexual organ of the male in both humans and animals.

Declension

Declension of πέος

	singular	plural
nominative	πέος •	πέη •
genitive	πέους •	πεών •
accusative	πέος •	πέη •
vocative	πέος •	πέη •

Synonyms

• ανδρικό μόριο n (andrikó mório, “male member”) (euphemistic)
• τσουτσούνι n (tsoutsoúni) (colloquial, childish)
• πουλί n (poulí) (colloquial, childish)
• πούτσος m (poútsos) (colloquial, vulgar)
• καυλί n (kavlí) (colloquial, vulgar)
• ψωλή f (psolí) (colloquial, vulgar)
• μαλαπέρδα f (malapérda) (colloquial, vulgar)

Derived terms

• πεολειξία f (peoleixía, “fellatio”)

See also

• φαλλός m (fallós, “phallus”)

Further reading

• πέος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el