πίγγαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been compared with Sanskrit पिङ्गल (piṅgala, “reddish brown”) and with πίγγαν (píngan, “nestling, chick”). The etymology remains unknown, however the presence of the prenasalization and the suffix -αλ- could lead to a Pre-Greek etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /píŋ.ɡa.los/ → /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/ → /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /píŋ.ɡa.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋ.ɡa.los/

Noun

πῐ́γγᾰλος • (píngalos) m (genitive πῐγγᾰ́λου); second declension

1. kind of lizard

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́γγᾰλος; τοῦ πῐγγᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́γγᾰλος ho píngalos	τὼ πῐγγᾰ́λω tṑ pingálō	οἱ πῐ́γγᾰλοι hoi píngaloi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐγγᾰ́λου toû pingálou	τοῖν πῐγγᾰ́λοιν toîn pingáloin	τῶν πῐγγᾰ́λων tôn pingálōn
Dative	τῷ πῐγγᾰ́λῳ tôi pingálōi	τοῖν πῐγγᾰ́λοιν toîn pingáloin	τοῖς πῐγγᾰ́λοις toîs pingálois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́γγᾰλον tòn píngalon	τὼ πῐγγᾰ́λω tṑ pingálō	τοὺς πῐγγᾰ́λους toùs pingálous
Vocative	πῐ́γγᾰλε píngale	πῐγγᾰ́λω pingálō	πῐ́γγᾰλοι píngaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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