Πειραιεύς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πειραεύς (Peiraeús)

Etymology

Derived from πέρα (péra, “beyond”). The name roughly translates as "the place over the passage."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/ → /pi.rɛˈeɸs/ → /pi.reˈefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.rɛˈews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.rɛˈeɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈefs/

Proper noun

Πειραιεύς • (Peiraieús) m (genitive Πειραιῶς); third declension

1. Piraeus, Athens, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Πειραιεύς; τοῦ Πειραιέως (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πειραιεύς ho Peiraieús
Genitive	τοῦ Πειραιέως / Πειραιῶς toû Peiraiéōs / Peiraiôs
Dative	τῷ Πειραιεῖ tôi Peiraieî
Accusative	τὸν Πειραιέᾱ / Πειραιᾶ tòn Peiraiéā / Peiraiâ
Vocative	Πειραιεῦ Peiraieû
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The first form is uncontracted, the second contracted.

Descendants

• → Arabic: بيرايوس
• → Bulgarian: Пирея (Pireja)
• → Catalan: Pireu
• → Czech: Pireus
• → Danish: Piræus
• → Dutch: Piraeus
• → Estonian: Pireus
• → Finnish: Pireus
• → French: Pirée
• → German: Piräus
• Greek: Πειραιεύς (Peiraiéfs), Πειραιάς (Peiraiás)
• → Hebrew: פיראוס
• → Italian: Pireo
• → Japanese: ピレウス
• → Latin: Piraeus
• → Latvian: Pireja
• → Lithuanian: Pirėjas
• → Lombard: Piraeus
• → Luxembourgish: Piräus
• → Norwegian: Pireus
• → Polish: Pireus
• → Portuguese: Pireu
• → Romanian: Pireu
• → Russian: Пирей (Pirej)
• → Samogitian: Piriejos
• → Slovak: Pireus
• → Spanish: Pireo
• → Swedish: Pireus
• → Turkish: Pire
• → Ukrainian: Пірей (Pirej)
• → Welsh: Piraeus

References

• “Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "The Port of Piraeus Through The Ages". greece.org.

Further reading

• Πειραιεύς on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el