πήρα

See also: πῆρα, πείρα, and πυρά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pre-Greek; possible connection with Latin pero (“soldier's shoes”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

πήρᾱ • (pḗrā) f (genitive πήρᾱς); first declension

  1. (rare) bag, haversack, pouch, wallet

Declension
First declension of ἡ πήρᾱ; τῆς πήρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ πήρᾱ
hē pḗrā		 τὼ πήρᾱ
tṑ pḗrā		 αἱ πῆραι
hai pêrai
Genitive τῆς πήρᾱς
tês pḗrās		 τοῖν πήραιν
toîn pḗrain		 τῶν πηρῶν
tôn pērôn
Dative τῇ πήρᾳ
têi pḗrāi		 τοῖν πήραιν
toîn pḗrain		 ταῖς πήραις
taîs pḗrais
Accusative τὴν πήρᾱν
tḕn pḗrān		 τὼ πήρᾱ
tṑ pḗrā		 τᾱ̀ς πήρᾱς
tā̀s pḗrās
Vocative πήρᾱ
pḗrā		 πήρᾱ
pḗrā		 πῆραι
pêrai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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

Greek

Verb

πήρα • (píra)

  1. 1st person singular simple past form of παίρνω (paírno).
    In polytonic script: πῆρα
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