πηκτίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πᾶκτις (pâktis) — Aeolic
• πᾱκτίς (pāktís) — Doric

Etymology

From πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to fix, to stick”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛːk.tís/ → /pikˈtis/ → /pikˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛːk.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝kˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pikˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pikˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pikˈtis/

Noun

πηκτίς • (pēktís) f (genitive πηκτίδος); third declension

1. stringed instrument used by the Lydians
2. shepherd's pipe, pipes of Pan
3. (in the plural) cage or net for catching birds
4. carving knife

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πηκτῐ́ς; τῆς πηκτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πηκτῐ́ς hē pēktís	τὼ πηκτῐ́δε tṑ pēktíde	αἱ πηκτῐ́δες hai pēktídes
Genitive	τῆς πηκτῐ́δος tês pēktídos	τοῖν πηκτῐ́δοιν toîn pēktídoin	τῶν πηκτῐ́δων tôn pēktídōn
Dative	τῇ πηκτῐ́δῐ têi pēktídi	τοῖν πηκτῐ́δοιν toîn pēktídoin	ταῖς πηκτῐ́σῐ / πηκτῐ́σῐν taîs pēktísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πηκτῐ́δᾰ tḕn pēktída	τὼ πηκτῐ́δε tṑ pēktíde	τᾱ̀ς πηκτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pēktídas
Vocative	πηκτῐ́ς pēktís	πηκτῐ́δε pēktíde	πηκτῐ́δες pēktídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “πηκτίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πηκτίς 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