Πηλούσιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian [script needed] (Pelousion), said to mean "house of Amun" or "city of mud." More at Pelusium.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pɛː.lǔː.si.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pe̝ˈlu.si.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /piˈlu.si.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /piˈlu.si.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /piˈlu.si.on/
Proper noun
Πηλούσῐον • (Pēloúsion) n (genitive Πηλουσῐ́ου); second declension
- Pelusium, Lower Egypt
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ Πηλούσῐον tò Pēloúsion | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Πηλουσῐ́ου toû Pēlousíou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Πηλουσῐ́ῳ tôi Pēlousíōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ Πηλούσῐον tò Pēloúsion | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πηλούσῐον Pēloúsion | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Πηλουσῐᾰκός (Pēlousiakós)
Descendants
References
- “Πηλούσιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
- Donne, William Bodham (1857). "Pelusium". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 2. London: John Murray. pp. 572–573.
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