πισγίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /piz.ɡís/ → /pizˈʝis/ → /pizˈʝis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /piz.ɡís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pizˈɡis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pizˈʝis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pizˈʝis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pizˈʝis/

Noun

πισγῐ́ς • (pisgís) f (genitive πισγῐ́δος); third declension

1. A box of wood

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πισγῐ́ς; τῆς πισγῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πισγῐ́ς hē pisgís	τὼ πισγῐ́δε tṑ pisgíde	αἱ πισγῐ́δες hai pisgídes
Genitive	τῆς πισγῐ́δος tês pisgídos	τοῖν πισγῐ́δοιν toîn pisgídoin	τῶν πισγῐ́δων tôn pisgídōn
Dative	τῇ πισγῐ́δῐ têi pisgídi	τοῖν πισγῐ́δοιν toîn pisgídoin	ταῖς πισγῐ́σῐ / πισγῐ́σῐν taîs pisgísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πισγῐ́δᾰ tḕn pisgída	τὼ πισγῐ́δε tṑ pisgíde	τᾱ̀ς πισγῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pisgídas
Vocative	πισγῐ́ς pisgís	πισγῐ́δε pisgíde	πισγῐ́δες pisgídes
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

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