πίνη
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAccording to Lewy, perhaps from Hebrew פנין (pĕnin, “coral”), but in view of the variation ν/νν, it is more probably Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pǐː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ni/
Noun
editπῑ́νη • (pī́nē) f (genitive πῑ́νης); first declension
- pen shell (bivalve of the family Pinnidae)
- pearl shell, pearl
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῑ́νη hē pī́nē |
τὼ πῑ́νᾱ tṑ pī́nā |
αἱ πῖναι hai pînai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῑ́νης tês pī́nēs |
τοῖν πῑ́ναιν toîn pī́nain |
τῶν πῑνῶν tôn pīnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῑ́νῃ têi pī́nēi |
τοῖν πῑ́ναιν toîn pī́nain |
ταῖς πῑ́ναις taîs pī́nais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῑ́νην tḕn pī́nēn |
τὼ πῑ́νᾱ tṑ pī́nā |
τᾱ̀ς πῑ́νᾱς tā̀s pī́nās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῑ́νη pī́nē |
πῑ́νᾱ pī́nā |
πῖναι pînai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “πίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πίνη 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
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- Ancient Greek nouns
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- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Bivalves