Πῖσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Etruscan.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pîː.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/ → /ˈpi.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pîː.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sa/

Proper noun

Πῖσᾰ • (Pîsa) f (genitive Πῑ́σης); first declension

1. Pisa (ancient place situated in ancient Elis, Greece)
2. Pisa (city on the mouth of the Arno in Tuscany, central Italy)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Πῖσᾰ; τῆς Πῑ́σης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πῖσᾰ hē Pîsa
Genitive	τῆς Πῑ́σης tês Pī́sēs
Dative	τῇ Πῑ́σῃ têi Pī́sēi
Accusative	τὴν Πῖσᾰν tḕn Pîsan
Vocative	Πῖσᾰ Pîsa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Πῑσᾱ́της (Pīsā́tēs)
• Πῑσᾶτῐς (Pīsâtis)

Descendants

• Greek: Πίσα (Písa)

References

• “Πῖσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022

Further reading

• Pisa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia