πῖσος

See also: πίσος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No certain etymology. Traditionally analyzed as *πῖδ-σος, related to πῖδαξ (pîdax, “spring, fountain”); this is rejected by Furnée, who takes the alternation δ/σ to point to Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

πῖσος • (pîsos) n (genitive πῑ́σεος); third declension

  1. (usually in the plural) meadow
    Synonym: λειμών (leimṓn)

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ πῖσος; τοῦ πῑ́σεος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ πῖσος
tò pîsos		 τὼ πῑ́σεε
tṑ pī́see		 τᾰ̀ πῑ́σεᾰ
tà pī́sea
Genitive τοῦ πῑ́σεος
toû pī́seos		 τοῖν πῑσέοιν
toîn pīséoin		 τῶν πῑσέων
tôn pīséōn
Dative τῷ πῑ́σεῐ̈
tôi pī́seï		 τοῖν πῑσέοιν
toîn pīséoin		 τοῖς πῑ́σεσῐ / πῑ́σεσῐν
toîs pī́sesi(n)
Accusative τὸ πῖσος
tò pîsos		 τὼ πῑ́σεε
tṑ pī́see		 τᾰ̀ πῑ́σεᾰ
tà pī́sea
Vocative πῖσος
pîsos		 πῑ́σεε
pī́see		 πῑ́σεᾰ
pī́sea
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • πῑσεύς (pīseús)

Further reading
  • “πῖσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “πῖσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “πῖσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • πῖσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • πῖσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πῖσος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1197
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