πέζις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”), the same root of Latin pēdō (“to fart”) and βδέω (bdéō, “to break wind”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /péz.dis/ → /ˈpe.zis/ → /ˈpe.zis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /péz.dis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.zis/

Noun

πέζῐς • (pézis) f (genitive πέζεως); third declension

1. paltry puffball (Bovista plumbea)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πέζῐς; τῆς πέζεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πέζῐς hē pézis	τὼ πέζει tṑ pézei	αἱ πέζεις hai pézeis
Genitive	τῆς πέζεως tês pézeōs	τοῖν πεζέοιν toîn pezéoin	τῶν πέζεων tôn pézeōn
Dative	τῇ πέζει têi pézei	τοῖν πεζέοιν toîn pezéoin	ταῖς πέζεσῐ / πέζεσῐν taîs pézesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πέζῐν tḕn pézin	τὼ πέζει tṑ pézei	τᾱ̀ς πέζεις tā̀s pézeis
Vocative	πέζῐ pézi	πέζει pézei	πέζεις pézeis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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