πυραμίς
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editPerhaps from Ancient Greek πῡραμός (pūramós) + -ῐ́ς (-ís), from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”), or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height?”). If the ‘cake’ sense of the word is primary and was later applied to the Egyptian monuments from their resemblance in shape, then the Greek etymology is probable; however, the shape of the cake is unknown, and the ‘monument’ sense is attested a century earlier than the ‘cake’ sense, so that the Greek derivation is problematic. The Egyptian derivation is also problematic in that there is a gap of 1100 years between the attestation of pr-m-ws and that of πυραμίς. It is also possible that the ‘monument’ sense and the ‘cake’ sense were originally etymologically distinct but came to be identical due to folk etymology.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pyː.ra.mís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /py.raˈmis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /py.raˈmis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /py.raˈmis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pi.raˈmis/
Noun
editπῡρᾰμῐ́ς • (pūramís) f (genitive πῡρᾰμῐ́δος); third declension
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῡρᾰμῐ́ς hē pūramís |
τὼ πῡρᾰμῐ́δε tṑ pūramíde |
αἱ πῡρᾰμῐ́δες hai pūramídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῡρᾰμῐ́δος tês pūramídos |
τοῖν πῡρᾰμῐ́δοιν toîn pūramídoin |
τῶν πῡρᾰμῐ́δων tôn pūramídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῡρᾰμῐ́δῐ têi pūramídi |
τοῖν πῡρᾰμῐ́δοιν toîn pūramídoin |
ταῖς πῡρᾰμῐ́σῐ / πῡρᾰμῐ́σῐν taîs pūramísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῡρᾰμῐ́δᾰ tḕn pūramída |
τὼ πῡρᾰμῐ́δε tṑ pūramíde |
τᾱ̀ς πῡρᾰμῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pūramídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῡρᾰμῐ́ς pūramís |
πῡρᾰμῐ́δε pūramíde |
πῡρᾰμῐ́δες pūramídes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “πυραμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυραμίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυραμίς 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.
- pyramid idem, page 662.
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