πηδός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῆδος (pêdos)

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to πάδος (pádos, “mahlab”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛː.dós/ → /piˈðos/ → /piˈðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛː.dós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝ˈdos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /piˈðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /piˈðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈðos/

Noun

πηδός • (pēdós) m (genitive πηδοῦ); second declension

1. tree whose timber was used for axles

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πηδός; τοῦ πηδοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πηδός ho pēdós	τὼ πηδώ tṑ pēdṓ	οἱ πηδοί hoi pēdoí
Genitive	τοῦ πηδοῦ toû pēdoû	τοῖν πηδοῖν toîn pēdoîn	τῶν πηδῶν tôn pēdôn
Dative	τῷ πηδῷ tôi pēdôi	τοῖν πηδοῖν toîn pēdoîn	τοῖς πηδοῖς toîs pēdoîs
Accusative	τὸν πηδόν tòn pēdón	τὼ πηδώ tṑ pēdṓ	τοὺς πηδούς toùs pēdoús
Vocative	πηδέ pēdé	πηδώ pēdṓ	πηδοί pēdoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πήδινος (pḗdinos)

References

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