πιτυρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πῐ́τῡρον (pítūron, “bran”) +‎ -ῐ́ς (-ís).

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 • (pitūrís) 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 pitūrís	τὼ πῐτῡρῐ́δε tṑ pitūríde	αἱ πῐτῡρῐ́δες hai pitūrídes
Genitive	τῆς πῐτῡρῐ́δος tês pitūrídos	τοῖν πῐτῡρῐ́δοιν toîn pitūrídoin	τῶν πῐτῡρῐ́δων tôn pitūrídōn
Dative	τῇ πῐτῡρῐ́δῐ têi pitūrídi	τοῖν πῐτῡρῐ́δοιν toîn pitūrídoin	ταῖς πῐτῡρῐ́σῐ / πῐτῡρῐ́σῐν taîs pitūrísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῐτῡρῐ́δᾰ tḕn pitūrída	τὼ πῐτῡρῐ́δε tṑ pitūríde	τᾱ̀ς πῐτῡρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s pitūrídas
Vocative	πῐτῡρῐ́ς pitūrís	πῐτῡρῐ́δε pitūríde	πῐτῡρῐ́δες pitūrídes
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