πελεκῖνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of πελεκᾶς (pelekâs, “kind of woodpecker”), πελεκανός (pelekanós, “coot”) and πελεκάν (pelekán, “pelican”), presumably of shape *pilik-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.le.kîː.nos/ → /pe.leˈci.nos/ → /pe.leˈci.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.le.kîː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈki.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈci.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈci.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.leˈci.nos/

Noun

πελεκῖνος • (pelekînos) m (genitive πελεκῑ́νου); second declension

1. pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)

   Synonyms: ὀνοκρότᾰλος (onokrótalos), πελεκᾰ́ν (pelekán)

2. crownvetch (Securigera varia)
3. dovetail, culvertail

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πελεκῖνος; τοῦ πελεκῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πελεκῖνος ho pelekînos	τὼ πελεκῑ́νω tṑ pelekī́nō	οἱ πελεκῖνοι hoi pelekînoi
Genitive	τοῦ πελεκῑ́νου toû pelekī́nou	τοῖν πελεκῑ́νοιν toîn pelekī́noin	τῶν πελεκῑ́νων tôn pelekī́nōn
Dative	τῷ πελεκῑ́νῳ tôi pelekī́nōi	τοῖν πελεκῑ́νοιν toîn pelekī́noin	τοῖς πελεκῑ́νοις toîs pelekī́nois
Accusative	τὸν πελεκῖνον tòn pelekînon	τὼ πελεκῑ́νω tṑ pelekī́nō	τοὺς πελεκῑ́νους toùs pelekī́nous
Vocative	πελεκῖνε pelekîne	πελεκῑ́νω pelekī́nō	πελεκῖνοι pelekînoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πελεκῖνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πελεκῖνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πελεκάν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1166