πηός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πᾱός (pāós) — Doric

Etymology

Kinship term without certain connection. It has often been connected with Latin pār (“equal, even”), but this is formally not compelling. Unrelated to πηΐσκος (pēḯskos, “son, offspring”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛː.ós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝ˈos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /piˈos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /piˈos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈos/

Noun

πηός • (pēós) m (genitive πηοῦ); second declension

kinsman by marriage or alliance

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πηός; τοῦ πηοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πηός ho pēós	τὼ πηώ tṑ pēṓ	οἱ πηοί hoi pēoí
Genitive	τοῦ πηοῦ toû pēoû	τοῖν πηοῖν toîn pēoîn	τῶν πηῶν tôn pēôn
Dative	τῷ πηῷ tôi pēôi	τοῖν πηοῖν toîn pēoîn	τοῖς πηοῖς toîs pēoîs
Accusative	τὸν πηόν tòn pēón	τὼ πηώ tṑ pēṓ	τοὺς πηούς toùs pēoús
Vocative	πηέ pēé	πηώ pēṓ	πηοί pēoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

πηοσύνη (pēosúnē)
πηόω (pēóō)

References

“πηός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πηός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“πηός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
πηός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πηός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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

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