πίνη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῖνα (pîna), πίννα (pínna)

Etymology

According to Lewy, perhaps from Hebrew פנין (pĕnin, “coral”), but in view of the variation ν/νν, it is more probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pǐː.nɛː/ → /ˈpi.ni/ → /ˈpi.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pǐː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ni/

Noun

πῑ́νη • (pī́nē) f (genitive πῑ́νης); first declension

1. pen shell (bivalve of the family Pinnidae)
2. pearl shell, pearl

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῑ́νη; τῆς πῑ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀληθινόπινος (alēthinópinos)
• πινάριον (pinárion)
• πινίκιος (piníkios)
• πίνινος (píninos)
• πινοτήρης (pinotḗrēs)
• πινώτιον (pinṓtion)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: pīna
• → Translingual: Pinna

Further reading

• “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