πίθηκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῐ́θᾱκος (píthākos) — Doric
• πῐ́θηξ (píthēx)

Etymology

Uncertain. Commonly connected with Latin foedus (“ugly”). Beekes argues for an origin as a substrate loan-word or perhaps Pre-Greek. The same suffix can be found in ἱέραξ (hiérax, “falcon”) and μύρμηξ (múrmēx, “ant”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.tʰɛː.kos/ → /ˈpi.θi.kos/ → /ˈpi.θi.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pí.tʰɛː.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tʰe̝.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/

Noun

πῐ́θηκος • (píthēkos) m (genitive πῐθήκου); second declension

1. ape, monkey
2. trickster, jackanapes
3. dwarf

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́θηκος; τοῦ πῐθήκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́θηκος ho píthēkos	τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō	οἱ πῐ́θηκοι hoi píthēkoi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐθήκου toû pithḗkou	τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin	τῶν πῐθήκων tôn pithḗkōn
Dative	τῷ πῐθήκῳ tôi pithḗkōi	τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin	τοῖς πῐθήκοις toîs pithḗkois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́θηκον tòn píthēkon	τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō	τοὺς πῐθήκους toùs pithḗkous
Vocative	πῐ́θηκε píthēke	πῐθήκω pithḗkō	πῐ́θηκοι píthēkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δημοπῐ́θηκος (dēmopíthēkos)
• κερκοπῐ́θηκος (kerkopíthēkos)
• πῐθήκειος (pithḗkeios)
• πῐθήκη (pithḗkē)
• πῐθηκῐδεύς (pithēkideús)
• πῐθηκῐ́ζω (pithēkízō)
• πῐθήκῐον (pithḗkion)
• πῐθηκῐσμός (pithēkismós)
• πῐθηκοειδής (pithēkoeidḗs)
• πῐθηκόμορφος (pithēkómorphos)
• πῐθηκοφᾰγέω (pithēkophagéō)
• πῐθηκοφόρος (pithēkophóros)
• πῐθηκώδης (pithēkṓdēs)
• τρῐπῐθήκῐνος (tripithḗkinos)
• χοιροπῐ́θηκος (khoiropíthēkos)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πίθηκος (píthikos)
• → English: pitheco-
• → Latin: pithēcus
• → Russian: пите́к (piték)
• → Translingual: Pithecus, -pithecus
• → Sicilian: pitecu, pitichinu

References

• “πίθηκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίθηκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίθηκος 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ape idem, page 33.
  • baboon idem, page 57.
  • monkey idem, page 539.
• 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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos).

Noun

πίθηκος • (píthikos) m (plural πίθηκοι)

1. ape, monkey
2. an uncivilised person

Declension

Declension of πίθηκος

	singular	plural
nominative	πίθηκος •	πίθηκοι •
genitive	πίθηκου •,  πιθήκου •	πίθηκων •,  πιθήκων •
accusative	πίθηκο •	πίθηκους •,  πιθήκους •
vocative	πίθηκε •	πίθηκοι •
Second forms are formal.

Further reading

• πίθηκος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el