Πειραιεύς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πειραεύς (Peiraeús)

Etymology

The name roughly translates as "the place over the passage."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/ → /pi.rɛˈeɸs/ → /pi.reˈefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /peː.rai̯.ěu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.rɛˈews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.rɛˈeɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.reˈefs/

Proper noun

Πειραιεύς • (Peiraieús) m (genitive Πειραιῶς); third declension

1. Piraeus, Athens, Attica, Greece

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Πειραιεύς; τοῦ Πειραιέως (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πειραιεύς ho Peiraieús
Genitive	τοῦ Πειραιέως / Πειραιῶς toû Peiraiéōs / Peiraiôs
Dative	τῷ Πειραιεῖ tôi Peiraieî
Accusative	τὸν Πειραιέᾱ / Πειραιᾶ tòn Peiraiéā / Peiraiâ
Vocative	Πειραιεῦ Peiraieû
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. The first form is uncontracted, the second contracted.

Descendants

• Arabic: بيرايوس
• Bulgarian: Пирея (Pireja)
• Catalan: Pireu
• Czech: Pireus
• Danish: Piræus
• Dutch: Piraeus
• Estonian: Pireus
• Finnish: Pireus
• French: Pirée
• German: Piräus
• Greek: Πειραιεύς (Peiraiéfs); Πειραιάς (Peiraiás)
• Hebrew: פיראוס
• Italian: Pireo
• Japanese: ピレウス
• Latin: Piraeus
• Latvian: Pireja
• Lithuanian: Pirėjas
• Lombard: Piraeus
• Luxembourgish: Piräus
• Norwegian: Pireus
• Polish: Pireus
• Portuguese: Pireu
• Romanian: Pireu
• Russian: Пирей (Pirej)
• Samogitian: Piriejos
• Slovak: Pireus
• Spanish: Pireo
• Swedish: Pireus
• Turkish: Pire
• Ukrainian: Пірей (Pirej)
• Welsh: Piraeus

References

• “Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Πειραιεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "The Port of Piraeus Through The Ages". greece.org.