πηκτίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πᾶκτις (pâktis) — Aeolic
• πᾱκτίς (pāktís) — Doric

Etymology

From πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to fix, to stick”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛːk.tís/ → /pikˈtis/ → /pikˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛːk.tís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝kˈtis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pikˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pikˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pikˈtis/

Noun

πηκτίς • (pēktís) f (genitive πηκτίδος); third declension

1. stringed instrument used by the Lydians
2. shepherd's pipe, pipes of Pan
3. (in the plural) cage or net for catching birds
4. carving knife

Declension

Third declension of ἡ πηκτῐ́ς; τῆς πηκτῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πηκτῐ́ς hē pēktĭ́s	τὼ πηκτῐ́δε tṑ pēktĭ́de	αἱ πηκτῐ́δες hai pēktĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς πηκτῐ́δος tês pēktĭ́dos	τοῖν πηκτῐ́δοιν toîn pēktĭ́doin	τῶν πηκτῐ́δων tôn pēktĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ πηκτῐ́δῐ têi pēktĭ́dĭ	τοῖν πηκτῐ́δοιν toîn pēktĭ́doin	ταῖς πηκτῐ́σῐ / πηκτῐ́σῐν taîs pēktĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πηκτῐ́δᾰ tḕn pēktĭ́dă	τὼ πηκτῐ́δε tṑ pēktĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς πηκτῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pēktĭ́dăs
Vocative	πηκτῐ́ς pēktĭ́s	πηκτῐ́δε pēktĭ́de	πηκτῐ́δες pēktĭ́des
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

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