πελίκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of πέλλα (pélla, “milk pail”), in view of the variation -λ-/-λλ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pe.lí.kɛː/ → /peˈli.ci/ → /peˈli.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pe.lí.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peˈli.ci/

Noun

πελῐ́κη • (pelíkē) f (genitive πελῐ́κης); first declension

1. Pollux gives the definition as: χοῦς (khoûs, “a measure of capacity”), λεκάνη (lekánē, “dish, pot, pan”).
2. pelike, a ceramic container similar to an amphora

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πελῐ́κη; τῆς πελῐ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πελῐ́κη hē pelíkē	τὼ πελῐ́κᾱ tṑ pelíkā	αἱ πελῐ́και hai pelíkai
Genitive	τῆς πελῐ́κης tês pelíkēs	τοῖν πελῐ́καιν toîn pelíkain	τῶν πελῐκῶν tôn pelikôn
Dative	τῇ πελῐ́κῃ têi pelíkēi	τοῖν πελῐ́καιν toîn pelíkain	ταῖς πελῐ́καις taîs pelíkais
Accusative	τὴν πελῐ́κην tḕn pelíkēn	τὼ πελῐ́κᾱ tṑ pelíkā	τᾱ̀ς πελῐ́κᾱς tā̀s pelíkās
Vocative	πελῐ́κη pelíkē	πελῐ́κᾱ pelíkā	πελῐ́και pelíkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: pelike

Further reading

• “πελίκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πελίκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πέλλα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1167