παρείας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πᾰρειά (pareiá, “cheek”) +‎ -ας (-as, nominal suffix), after the light spots on both sides of the neck.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.rěː.aːs/ → /paˈri.as/ → /paˈri.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.rěː.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /paˈri.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /paˈri.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /paˈri.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈri.as/

Noun

πᾰρείᾱς • (pareíās) m (genitive πᾰρείου); first declension

1. reddish-brown snake sacred to Asclepius

Inflection

First declension of ὁ πᾰρείᾱς; τοῦ πᾰρείου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰρείᾱς ho pareíās	τὼ πᾰρείᾱ tṑ pareíā	οἱ πᾰρεῖαι hoi pareîai
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰρείου toû pareíou	τοῖν πᾰρείαιν toîn pareíain	τῶν πᾰρειῶν tôn pareiôn
Dative	τῷ πᾰρείᾳ tôi pareíāi	τοῖν πᾰρείαιν toîn pareíain	τοῖς πᾰρείαις toîs pareíais
Accusative	τὸν πᾰρείᾱν tòn pareíān	τὼ πᾰρείᾱ tṑ pareíā	τοὺς πᾰρείᾱς toùs pareíās
Vocative	πᾰρείᾱ pareíā	πᾰρείᾱ pareíā	πᾰρεῖαι pareîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: parēās

Further reading

• “παρείας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• παρείας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette