πιμελή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pīmós, from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πίων (píōn, “fat, rich”), Latin pinguis (“fat, plump”) and Proto-Germanic *faitaz (“fat”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /piː.me.lɛ̌ː/ → /pi.meˈli/ → /pi.meˈli/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /piː.me.lɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.meˈle̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.meˈli/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.meˈli/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.meˈli/

Noun

πῑμελή • (pīmelḗ) f (genitive πῑμελῆς); first declension

1. soft fat, lard (opposed to στέαρ (stéar, “hard fat”))

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῑμελή; τῆς πῑμελῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῑμελή hē pīmelḗ	τὼ πῑμελᾱ́ tṑ pīmelā́	αἱ πῑμελαί hai pīmelaí
Genitive	τῆς πῑμελῆς tês pīmelês	τοῖν πῑμελαῖν toîn pīmelaîn	τῶν πῑμελῶν tôn pīmelôn
Dative	τῇ πῑμελῇ têi pīmelêi	τοῖν πῑμελαῖν toîn pīmelaîn	ταῖς πῑμελαῖς taîs pīmelaîs
Accusative	τὴν πῑμελήν tḕn pīmelḗn	τὼ πῑμελᾱ́ tṑ pīmelā́	τᾱ̀ς πῑμελᾱ́ς tā̀s pīmelā́s
Vocative	πῑμελή pīmelḗ	πῑμελᾱ́ pīmelā́	πῑμελαί pīmelaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πῑμελής (pīmelḗs)
• πῑμελώδης (pīmelṓdēs)

 

Further reading

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