πεῖσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πείθω (peíthō, “I persuade”) +‎ -ιᾰ (-iă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pêː.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pêː.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/

Noun

πεῖσᾰ • (peîsă) f (genitive πείσης); first declension

1. obedience

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πεῖσᾰ; τῆς πείσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πεῖσᾰ hē peîsă	τὼ πείσᾱ tṑ peísā	αἱ πεῖσαι hai peîsai
Genitive	τῆς πείσης tês peísēs	τοῖν πείσαιν toîn peísain	τῶν πεισῶν tôn peisôn
Dative	τῇ πείσῃ têi peísēi	τοῖν πείσαιν toîn peísain	ταῖς πείσαις taîs peísais
Accusative	τὴν πεῖσᾰν tḕn peîsăn	τὼ πείσᾱ tṑ peísā	τᾱ̀ς πείσᾱς tā̀s peísās
Vocative	πεῖσᾰ peîsă	πείσᾱ peísā	πεῖσαι peîsai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• πειθώ (peithṓ)

References

• “πεῖσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πεῖσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πεῖσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πεῖσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πεῖσα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πεῖσα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften