πέπτρια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέσσω (péssō, “to cook”) +‎ -τρῐᾰ (-tria). Reflects Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tr-ih₂ ~ *pkʷ-tr-yéh₂s (“female cook”), from *pekʷ- (“to cook”), compare Latin coctor m, Sanskrit पक्तृ m (paktṛ́).

Noun

πέπτρῐᾰ • (péptria) f (genitive πεπτρῐ́ᾱς); first declension (hapax)

1. (female^?) baker

   Synonyms: ἀρτοκόπος (artokópos), σιτοποιός (sitopoiós)

   • 5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:

     σιτοποιός· ἀρτοκόπος. ἢ πέπτρια

     sitopoiós; artokópos. ḕ péptria

     sitopoiós: baker, the baker

References

• “πέπτρια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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, page 1180f.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 798