πέλτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pél.tɛːs/ → /ˈpel.tis/ → /ˈpel.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pél.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.tis/

Noun

πέλτης • (péltēs) m (genitive πέλτου); first declension

1. the Nile-fish coracinus after being pickled

Declension

First declension of ὁ πέλτης; τοῦ πέλτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πέλτης ho péltēs	τὼ πέλτᾱ tṑ péltā	οἱ πέλται hoi péltai
Genitive	τοῦ πέλτου toû péltou	τοῖν πέλταιν toîn péltain	τῶν πελτῶν tôn peltôn
Dative	τῷ πέλτῃ tôi péltēi	τοῖν πέλταιν toîn péltain	τοῖς πέλταις toîs péltais
Accusative	τὸν πέλτην tòn péltēn	τὼ πέλτᾱ tṑ péltā	τοὺς πέλτᾱς toùs péltās
Vocative	πέλτᾰ pélta	πέλτᾱ péltā	πέλται péltai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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