πίγγαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been compared with Sanskrit पिङ्गल (piṅgala, “reddish brown”) and with πίγγαν (píngan, “nestling, chick”). The etymology remains unknown, however the presence of the prenasalization and the suffix -αλ- could lead to a Pre-Greek etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /píŋ.ɡa.los/ → /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/ → /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /píŋ.ɡa.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/

Noun

πῐ́γγᾰλος • (pĭ́ngălos) m (genitive πῐγγᾰ́λου); second declension

1. kind of lizard

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́γγᾰλος; τοῦ πῐγγᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́γγᾰλος ho pĭ́ngălos	τὼ πῐγγᾰ́λω tṑ pĭngắlō	οἱ πῐ́γγᾰλοι hoi pĭ́ngăloi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐγγᾰ́λου toû pĭngắlou	τοῖν πῐγγᾰ́λοιν toîn pĭngắloin	τῶν πῐγγᾰ́λων tôn pĭngắlōn
Dative	τῷ πῐγγᾰ́λῳ tôi pĭngắlōi	τοῖν πῐγγᾰ́λοιν toîn pĭngắloin	τοῖς πῐγγᾰ́λοις toîs pĭngắlois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́γγᾰλον tòn pĭ́ngălon	τὼ πῐγγᾰ́λω tṑ pĭngắlō	τοὺς πῐγγᾰ́λους toùs pĭngắlous
Vocative	πῐ́γγᾰλε pĭ́ngăle	πῐγγᾰ́λω pĭngắlō	πῐ́γγᾰλοι pĭ́ngăloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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