παλλακή
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
- παλλακίς (pallakís)
Etymology edit
The 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”). 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.
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 edit
παλλᾰκή • (pallakḗ) f (genitive παλλᾰκῆς); first declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | 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)
Descendants edit
- → Latin: pallaca
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
- 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