πίπρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably an onomatopoeic word, like synonymous πιπώ (pipṓ, “great spotted woodpecker”) and πιππίζω (pippízō, “to chirp, pipe”), πῖπος (pîpos, “young piping bird”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.praː/ → /ˈpi.pra/ → /ˈpi.pra/

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

Noun

πῐ́πρᾱ • (píprā) f (genitive πῐ́πρᾱς); first declension

1. great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

   Synonym: πῑπώ (pīpṓ)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῐ́πρᾱ; τῆς πῐ́πρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐ́πρᾱ hē píprā	τὼ πῐ́πρᾱ tṑ píprā	αἱ πῐ́πραι hai píprai
Genitive	τῆς πῐ́πρᾱς tês píprās	τοῖν πῐ́πραιν toîn píprain	τῶν πῐπρῶν tôn piprôn
Dative	τῇ πῐ́πρᾳ têi píprāi	τοῖν πῐ́πραιν toîn píprain	ταῖς πῐ́πραις taîs píprais
Accusative	τὴν πῐ́πρᾱν tḕn píprān	τὼ πῐ́πρᾱ tṑ píprā	τᾱ̀ς πῐ́πρᾱς tā̀s píprās
Vocative	πῐ́πρᾱ píprā	πῐ́πρᾱ píprā	πῐ́πραι píprai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Pipra

Further reading

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