πελίκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of πέλλα (pélla, “milk pail”), in view of the variation -λ-/-λλ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.lí.kɛː/ → /peˈli.ci/ → /peˈli.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.lí.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ci/

Noun

πελῐ́κη • (pelĭ́kē) f (genitive πελῐ́κης); first declension

1. Pollux gives the definition as: χοῦς (khoûs, “a measure of capacity”), λεκάνη (lekánē, “dish, pot, pan”).
2. pelike, a ceramic container similar to an amphora

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πελῐ́κη; τῆς πελῐ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πελῐ́κη hē pelĭ́kē	τὼ πελῐ́κᾱ tṑ pelĭ́kā	αἱ πελῐ́και hai pelĭ́kai
Genitive	τῆς πελῐ́κης tês pelĭ́kēs	τοῖν πελῐ́καιν toîn pelĭ́kain	τῶν πελῐκῶν tôn pelĭkôn
Dative	τῇ πελῐ́κῃ têi pelĭ́kēi	τοῖν πελῐ́καιν toîn pelĭ́kain	ταῖς πελῐ́καις taîs pelĭ́kais
Accusative	τὴν πελῐ́κην tḕn pelĭ́kēn	τὼ πελῐ́κᾱ tṑ pelĭ́kā	τᾱ̀ς πελῐ́κᾱς tā̀s pelĭ́kās
Vocative	πελῐ́κη pelĭ́kē	πελῐ́κᾱ pelĭ́kā	πελῐ́και pelĭ́kai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: pelike

Further reading

• “πελίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πελίκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πέλλα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1167