πέσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the source of this word could be the Proto-Indo-European root *peḱ- (“to pluck”), from which πεκτέω (pektéō, “to shear”), πόκος (pókos, “wool”) and κτείς (kteís, “comb”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pés.kos/ → /ˈpes.kos/ → /ˈpes.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pés.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpes.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpes.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpes.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpes.kos/

Noun

πέσκος • (péskos) n (genitive πέσκεος or πέσκους); third declension

1. skin, hide, rind

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πέσκος; τοῦ πέσκεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέσκος tò péskos	τὼ πέσκεε tṑ péskee	τᾰ̀ πέσκεᾰ tà péskea
Genitive	τοῦ πέσκεος toû péskeos	τοῖν πεσκέοιν toîn peskéoin	τῶν πεσκέων tôn peskéōn
Dative	τῷ πέσκεῐ̈ tôi péskeï	τοῖν πεσκέοιν toîn peskéoin	τοῖς πέσκεσῐ / πέσκεσῐν toîs péskesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πέσκος tò péskos	τὼ πέσκεε tṑ péskee	τᾰ̀ πέσκεᾰ tà péskea
Vocative	πέσκος péskos	πέσκεε péskee	πέσκεᾰ péskea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ πέσκος; τοῦ πέσκους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέσκος tò péskos	τὼ πέσκει tṑ péskei	τᾰ̀ πέσκη tà péskē
Genitive	τοῦ πέσκους toû péskous	τοῖν πεσκοῖν toîn peskoîn	τῶν πεσκῶν tôn peskôn
Dative	τῷ πέσκει tôi péskei	τοῖν πεσκοῖν toîn peskoîn	τοῖς πέσκεσῐ / πέσκεσῐν toîs péskesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πέσκος tò péskos	τὼ πέσκει tṑ péskei	τᾰ̀ πέσκη tà péskē
Vocative	πέσκος péskos	πέσκει péskei	πέσκη péskē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: pescia

Further reading

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