πέλεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a hypothetical u-stem *πελύς (*pelús, “gray”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“gray”). Compare Latin palumbēs (“dove”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pé.leː.a/ → /ˈpe.li.a/ → /ˈpe.li.a/

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

Noun

πέλειᾰ • (péleia) f (genitive πελείᾱς); first declension

1. rock pigeon
2. a prophetic priestess of Dodona (usually in plural)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πέλειᾰ; τῆς πελείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πέλειᾰ hē péleia	τὼ πελείᾱ tṑ peleíā	αἱ πέλειαι hai péleiai
Genitive	τῆς πελείᾱς tês peleíās	τοῖν πελείαιν toîn peleíain	τῶν πελειῶν tôn peleiôn
Dative	τῇ πελείᾳ têi peleíāi	τοῖν πελείαιν toîn peleíain	ταῖς πελείαις taîs peleíais
Accusative	τὴν πέλειᾰν tḕn péleian	τὼ πελείᾱ tṑ peleíā	τᾱ̀ς πελείᾱς tā̀s peleíās
Vocative	πέλειᾰ péleia	πελείᾱ peleíā	πέλειαι péleiai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέλεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πέλεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πέλεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πέλεια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dove idem, page 248.