πέρνης
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An Aristotelian term, attested in the Historia Animalorum (9.36), but corrupted in manuscript tradition, which also records περνίς (pernís), πτερνίς (pternís) and πέρκνης (pérknēs).
Theodorus Gaza, an early translator of Aristotle, renders the Greek term as Latin pernix.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pér.nɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈper.ne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈper.nis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈper.nis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈper.nis/
Noun
[edit]πέρνης • (pérnēs) m (genitive πέρνου); first declension
- a bird of prey, a kind of hawk
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 9.36:
- Ὁ δὲ ἀστερίας καὶ ὁ φασσοφόνος καὶ ὁ πέρνης ἀλλοῖοι.
- Ho dè asterías kaì ho phassophónos kaì ho pérnēs alloîoi.
- Other species [of hawk] are the starred [hawk], the dove-killing [hawk] and the pérnēs [hawk].
- Ὁ δὲ ἀστερίας καὶ ὁ φασσοφόνος καὶ ὁ πέρνης ἀλλοῖοι.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ πέρνης ho pérnēs |
τὼ πέρνᾱ tṑ pérnā |
οἱ πέρναι hoi pérnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ πέρνου toû pérnou |
τοῖν πέρναιν toîn pérnain |
τῶν περνῶν tôn pernôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ πέρνῃ tôi pérnēi |
τοῖν πέρναιν toîn pérnain |
τοῖς πέρναις toîs pérnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν πέρνην tòn pérnēn |
τὼ πέρνᾱ tṑ pérnā |
τοὺς πέρνᾱς toùs pérnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πέρνη pérnē |
πέρνᾱ pérnā |
πέρναι pérnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Pierre Belon, L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux, 1997, p. 410
Further reading
[edit]- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πέρνης”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “πέρνης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011