πεῖ
See also: πει
Ancient Greek edit
previous letter ὂ μικρόν |
following letter ῥῶ | |
Π π – English: pi |
Alternative forms edit
- πῖ (pî)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤐 (p /pē/).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pêː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pi/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi/
Noun edit
πεῖ • (peî) n (indeclinable)
- pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “πεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πῖ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette