πέλανος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πελανός (pelanós)

Etymology

The original meaning and etymology are uncertain. If the original meaning was "flat cake", it could be derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). However, Furnée compares πέλαινα (pélaina, “round cake”) and concludes that it is a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.la.nos/ → /ˈpe.la.nos/ → /ˈpe.la.nos/

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

Noun

πέλᾰνος • (pélanos) m (genitive πελᾰ́νου); second declension

1. any thick liquid substance, of various consistency
2. mixture offered to the gods and the dead, of meal, honey and oil
   1. meal made from barley and wheat, of which this mixture was made
3. round cake offered to the gods
4. measure of weight

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πέλᾰνος; τοῦ πελᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πέλᾰνος ho pélanos	τὼ πελᾰ́νω tṑ pelánō	οἱ πέλᾰνοι hoi pélanoi
Genitive	τοῦ πελᾰ́νου toû pelánou	τοῖν πελᾰ́νοιν toîn pelánoin	τῶν πελᾰ́νων tôn pelánōn
Dative	τῷ πελᾰ́νῳ tôi pelánōi	τοῖν πελᾰ́νοιν toîn pelánoin	τοῖς πελᾰ́νοις toîs pelánois
Accusative	τὸν πέλᾰνον tòn pélanon	τὼ πελᾰ́νω tṑ pelánō	τοὺς πελᾰ́νους toùs pelánous
Vocative	πέλᾰνε pélane	πελᾰ́νω pelánō	πέλᾰνοι pélanoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πέλανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέλανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέλανος 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