πηνήκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

As a wig may seem a bobbin of threads, the word has probably been derived from πήνη (pḗnē, “thread on the bobbin”), on the model of φενάκη (phenákē, “wig”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pɛː.nɛ̌ː.kɛː/ → /piˈni.ci/ → /piˈni.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pɛː.nɛ̌ː.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pe̝ˈne̝.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /piˈni.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /piˈni.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈni.ci/

Noun

πηνήκη • (pēnḗkē) f (genitive πηνήκης); first declension

1. false hair, wig

   Synonym: φενᾰ́κη (phenákē)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πηνήκη; τῆς πηνήκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πηνήκη hē pēnḗkē	τὼ πηνήκᾱ tṑ pēnḗkā	αἱ πηνῆκαι hai pēnêkai
Genitive	τῆς πηνήκης tês pēnḗkēs	τοῖν πηνήκαιν toîn pēnḗkain	τῶν πηνηκῶν tôn pēnēkôn
Dative	τῇ πηνήκῃ têi pēnḗkēi	τοῖν πηνήκαιν toîn pēnḗkain	ταῖς πηνήκαις taîs pēnḗkais
Accusative	τὴν πηνήκην tḕn pēnḗkēn	τὼ πηνήκᾱ tṑ pēnḗkā	τᾱ̀ς πηνήκᾱς tā̀s pēnḗkās
Vocative	πηνήκη pēnḗkē	πηνήκᾱ pēnḗkā	πηνῆκαι pēnêkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πηνηκῐ́ζω (pēnēkízō)
• πηνήκῐσμᾰ (pēnḗkisma)

 

Further reading

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