πιτυρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πῐ́τῡρον (pĭ́tūron, “bran”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pi.tyː.rís/ → /pi.tyˈris/ → /pi.tiˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pi.tyː.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.tyˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.tyˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.tyˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.tiˈris/

Noun

πῐτῡρῐ́ς • (pĭtūrĭ́s) f (genitive πῐτῡρῐ́δος); third declension

1. small kind of olive, of the colour of bran, which was gathered before it was ripe and then preserved

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πῐτῡρῐ́ς; τῆς πῐτῡρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐτῡρῐ́ς hē pĭtūrĭ́s	τὼ πῐτῡρῐ́δε tṑ pĭtūrĭ́de	αἱ πῐτῡρῐ́δες hai pĭtūrĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς πῐτῡρῐ́δος tês pĭtūrĭ́dos	τοῖν πῐτῡρῐ́δοιν toîn pĭtūrĭ́doin	τῶν πῐτῡρῐ́δων tôn pĭtūrĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ πῐτῡρῐ́δῐ têi pĭtūrĭ́dĭ	τοῖν πῐτῡρῐ́δοιν toîn pĭtūrĭ́doin	ταῖς πῐτῡρῐ́σῐ / πῐτῡρῐ́σῐν taîs pĭtūrĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῐτῡρῐ́δᾰ tḕn pĭtūrĭ́dă	τὼ πῐτῡρῐ́δε tṑ pĭtūrĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς πῐτῡρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pĭtūrĭ́dăs
Vocative	πῐτῡρῐ́ς pĭtūrĭ́s	πῐτῡρῐ́δε pĭtūrĭ́de	πῐτῡρῐ́δες pĭtūrĭ́des
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

• “πιτυρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πιτυρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette