πίπρα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably an onomatopoeic word, like synonymous πιπώ (pipṓ, “great spotted woodpecker”) and πιππίζω (pippízō, “to chirp, pipe”), πῖπος (pîpos, “young piping bird”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pí.praː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pra/
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Noun
[edit]πῐ́πρᾱ • (pĭ́prā) f (genitive πῐ́πρᾱς); first declension
- great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
- Synonym: πῑπώ (pīpṓ)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πῐ́πρᾱ hē pĭ́prā |
τὼ πῐ́πρᾱ tṑ pĭ́prā |
αἱ πῐ́πραι hai pĭ́prai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πῐ́πρᾱς tês pĭ́prās |
τοῖν πῐ́πραιν toîn pĭ́prain |
τῶν πῐπρῶν tôn pĭprôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πῐ́πρᾳ têi pĭ́prāi |
τοῖν πῐ́πραιν toîn pĭ́prain |
ταῖς πῐ́πραις taîs pĭ́prais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πῐ́πρᾱν tḕn pĭ́prān |
τὼ πῐ́πρᾱ tṑ pĭ́prā |
τᾱ̀ς πῐ́πρᾱς tā̀s pĭ́prās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πῐ́πρᾱ pĭ́prā |
πῐ́πρᾱ pĭ́prā |
πῐ́πραι pĭ́prai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Translingual: Pipra
Further reading
[edit]- “πίπρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- πίπρα 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