πηλαμύς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πηλᾰμῐ́ς (pēlamís)

Etymology

Likely from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛː.la.mýs/ → /pi.laˈmys/ → /pi.laˈmis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛː.la.mýs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝.laˈmys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.laˈmys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.laˈmys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.laˈmis/

Noun

πηλᾰμῠ́ς • (pēlamús) f (genitive πηλᾰμῠ́δος); third declension

1. young tunny
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 571a11
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 503
   • Oppian, Halieutica 1.113

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πηλᾰμῠ́ς; τῆς πηλᾰμῠ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πηλᾰμῠ́ς hē pēlamús	τὼ πηλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ pēlamúde	αἱ πηλᾰμῠ́δες hai pēlamúdes
Genitive	τῆς πηλᾰμῠ́δος tês pēlamúdos	τοῖν πηλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn pēlamúdoin	τῶν πηλᾰμῠ́δων tôn pēlamúdōn
Dative	τῇ πηλᾰμῠ́δῐ têi pēlamúdi	τοῖν πηλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn pēlamúdoin	ταῖς πηλᾰμῠ́σῐ / πηλᾰμῠ́σῐν taîs pēlamúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πηλᾰμῠ́δᾰ tḕn pēlamúda	τὼ πηλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ pēlamúde	τᾱ̀ς πηλᾰμῠ́δᾰς tā̀s pēlamúdas
Vocative	πηλᾰμῠ́ς pēlamús	πηλᾰμῠ́δε pēlamúde	πηλᾰμῠ́δες pēlamúdes
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.

Derived terms

• πηλᾰμῠδείᾱ (pēlamudeíā)
• πηλᾰμῠδεῖον (pēlamudeîon)

Descendants

• Latin: pēlamys
  • ⇒ Latin: pēlamydulus
    • Catalan: bonítol
• < Doric Greek: *πᾱλᾰμῠ́ς (*pālamús)
  • Catalan: palomida
  • Italian: palamita
  • Spanish: palometa
    • English: permit

References

• “πηλαμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πηλαμύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • tunny idem, page 901.