πυρεῖον
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editπῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + -εῖον (-eîon, suffix forming nouns denoting instruments and means of action)
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /py.rêː.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pyˈri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pyˈri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pyˈri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈri.on/
Noun
editπῠρεῖον • (pureîon) n (genitive πῠρείου); second declension
- (chiefly in the plural) a firestick (an implement used to start a fire by friction)
- 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 111
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 435a:
- τάχʼ ἂν…τρίβοντες, ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων, ἐκλάμψαι ποιήσαιμεν τὴν δικαιοσύνην
- tákhʼ àn…tríbontes, hṓsper ek pureíōn, eklámpsai poiḗsaimen tḕn dikaiosúnēn
- τάχʼ ἂν…τρίβοντες, ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων, ἐκλάμψαι ποιήσαιμεν τὴν δικαιοσύνην
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 22.33:
- πυρεῖά τε χερσὶν ἐνώμων
- pureîá te khersìn enṓmōn
- πυρεῖά τε χερσὶν ἐνώμων
- 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1184:
- ἀμφὶ πυρήϊα δινεύεσκον
- amphì purḗïa dineúeskon
- ἀμφὶ πυρήϊα δινεύεσκον
- an earthen pan for coals
- Synonym: θῡμῐᾱτήρῐον (thūmiātḗrion)
- 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον , (πυρίον)
- a. AD 893, Photius, Lexicon
- Suid.
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ πῠρεῖον tò pureîon |
τὼ πῠρείω tṑ pureíō |
τᾰ̀ πῠρεῖᾰ tà pureîa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πῠρείου toû pureíou |
τοῖν πῠρείοιν toîn pureíoin |
τῶν πῠρείων tôn pureíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πῠρείῳ tôi pureíōi |
τοῖν πῠρείοιν toîn pureíoin |
τοῖς πῠρείοις toîs pureíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ πῠρεῖον tò pureîon |
τὼ πῠρείω tṑ pureíō |
τᾰ̀ πῠρεῖᾰ tà pureîa | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῠρεῖον pureîon |
πῠρείω pureíō |
πῠρεῖᾰ pureîa | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- → Katharevousa: πυρεῖον (pureîon) (learned)
Further reading
edit- “πῠρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πυρεῖον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πυρεῖον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πυρεῖον”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “πυρεῖον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
Greek
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek πῠρεῖον (pureîon, “firestick”), only for Katharevousa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editπυρεῖον • (pureîon) n (plural πυρεῖα)
- (Katharevousa) a match, a matchstick (a small stick tipped with a substance susceptible to ignition by friction)
- In Strandard Modern Greek: σπίρτο n (spírto)
Declension
editKatharevousa declension: see #Ancient Greek without prosody, without dual.
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