περιοικίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

περίοικος (períoikos) +‎ -ίς (-ís)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.ri.oi̯.kís/ → /pe.ri.yˈcis/ → /pe.ri.iˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.oi̯.kís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.yˈkis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.yˈcis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.yˈcis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.iˈcis/

Noun

περῐοικίς • (perioikís) f (genitive περῐοικίδος); third declension

1. the country around a town; a suburb, Umland
2. a dependent town

Usage notes

Also used adjectivally as a feminine of περίοικος (períoikos, “dwelling or lying round about, neighbouring”).

Declension

Third declension of ἡ περῐοικῐ́ς; τῆς περῐοικῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ περῐοικῐ́ς hē perioikís	τὼ περῐοικῐ́δε tṑ perioikíde	αἱ περῐοικῐ́δες hai perioikídes
Genitive	τῆς περῐοικῐ́δος tês perioikídos	τοῖν περῐοικῐ́δοιν toîn perioikídoin	τῶν περῐοικῐ́δων tôn perioikídōn
Dative	τῇ περῐοικῐ́δῐ têi perioikídi	τοῖν περῐοικῐ́δοιν toîn perioikídoin	ταῖς περῐοικῐ́σῐ / περῐοικῐ́σῐν taîs perioikísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν περῐοικῐ́δᾰ tḕn perioikída	τὼ περῐοικῐ́δε tṑ perioikíde	τᾱ̀ς περῐοικῐ́δᾰς tā̀s perioikídas
Vocative	περῐοικῐ́ς perioikís	περῐοικῐ́δε perioikíde	περῐοικῐ́δες perioikídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• περιοικίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• περιοικίς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “περιοικίς”, 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.
  • suburb idem, page 833.
  • surrounding idem, page 845.