παλλακή
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
edit- παλλακίς (pallakís)
Etymology
editThe word may well be Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix "-ακ-". Similarly, Levin regards Latin paelex (“mistress”) as a loanword from a Mediterranean language, maybe a Semitic one, in view of Hebrew פִּילֶגֶשׁ (pilegesh, “concubine”). Other connections that have been proposed include Middle Irish airech (“concubine, wanton woman”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬐𐬁 (pairikā, “beautiful women seducing pious men”), Middle Persian [Term?] (/parīg/), Khotanese 𑀧𑀮𑀻𑀓𑀸 (palīkā), and Old Armenian պարիկ (parik), all of which Beekes dismisses for formal or semantic reasons.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pal.la.kɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pal.laˈke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pal.laˈci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pal.laˈci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pa.laˈci/
Noun
editπαλλᾰκή • (pallakḗ) f (genitive παλλᾰκῆς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ παλλᾰκή hē pallakḗ |
τὼ παλλᾰκᾱ́ tṑ pallakā́ |
αἱ παλλᾰκαί hai pallakaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς παλλᾰκῆς tês pallakês |
τοῖν παλλᾰκαῖν toîn pallakaîn |
τῶν παλλᾰκῶν tôn pallakôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ παλλᾰκῇ têi pallakêi |
τοῖν παλλᾰκαῖν toîn pallakaîn |
ταῖς παλλᾰκαῖς taîs pallakaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν παλλᾰκήν tḕn pallakḗn |
τὼ παλλᾰκᾱ́ tṑ pallakā́ |
τᾱ̀ς παλλᾰκᾱ́ς tā̀s pallakā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | παλλᾰκή pallakḗ |
παλλᾰκᾱ́ pallakā́ |
παλλᾰκαί pallakaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- παλλακεία (pallakeía)
- παλλακεύω (pallakeúō)
- παλλακίδιον (pallakídion)
- παλλακῖνος (pallakînos)
- παλλάκιον (pallákion)
- παλλακός (pallakós)
Related terms
edit- πάλλαξ (pállax, “youth”)
Descendants
edit- → Latin: pallaca
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “παλλακή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1147
Further reading
edit- “παλλακή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- παλλακή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “παλλακή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Semitic languages
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
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