πίθηκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

πῐ́θᾱκος (píthākos) — Doric
πῐ́θηξ (píthēx)

Etymology

Uncertain. Commonly connected with Latin foedus (“ugly”). Beekes argues for an origin as a substrate loan-word or perhaps Pre-Greek. The same suffix can be found in ἱέραξ (hiérax, “falcon”) and μύρμηξ (múrmēx, “ant”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pí.tʰɛː.kos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.tʰe̝.kos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.θi.kos/

Noun

πῐ́θηκος • (píthēkos) m (genitive πῐθήκου); second declension

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́θηκος; τοῦ πῐθήκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́θηκος ho píthēkos	τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō	οἱ πῐ́θηκοι hoi píthēkoi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐθήκου toû pithḗkou	τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin	τῶν πῐθήκων tôn pithḗkōn
Dative	τῷ πῐθήκῳ tôi pithḗkōi	τοῖν πῐθήκοιν toîn pithḗkoin	τοῖς πῐθήκοις toîs pithḗkois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́θηκον tòn píthēkon	τὼ πῐθήκω tṑ pithḗkō	τοὺς πῐθήκους toùs pithḗkous
Vocative	πῐ́θηκε píthēke	πῐθήκω pithḗkō	πῐ́θηκοι píthēkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

δημοπῐ́θηκος (dēmopíthēkos)
κερκοπῐ́θηκος (kerkopíthēkos)
πῐθήκειος (pithḗkeios)
πῐθήκη (pithḗkē)
πῐθηκοειδής (pithēkoeidḗs)
πῐθηκόμορφος (pithēkómorphos)
πῐθηκοφόρος (pithēkophóros)
πῐθηκοφᾰγέω (pithēkophagéō)
πῐθηκώδης (pithēkṓdēs)
πῐθηκῐδεύς (pithēkideús)
πῐθηκῐ́ζω (pithēkízō)
πῐθήκῐον (pithḗkion)
πῐθηκῐσμός (pithēkismós)
τρῐπῐθήκῐνος (tripithḗkinos)
χοιροπῐ́θηκος (khoiropíthēkos)

Descendants

Greek: πίθηκος (píthikos)
→ English: pitheco-
→ Latin: pithēcus
→ Translingual: Pithecus, -pithecus
→ Sicilian: pitecu, pitichinu

References

“πίθηκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“πίθηκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πίθηκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ape idem, page 33.
- baboon idem, page 57.
- monkey idem, page 539.
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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos).

Noun

πίθηκος • (píthikos) m (plural πίθηκοι)

ape, monkey
an uncivilised person

Declension

declension of πίθηκος

case \ number	singular	plural
nominative	πίθηκος •	πίθηκοι •
genitive	πίθηκου •, πιθήκου •	πίθηκων •, πιθήκων •
accusative	πίθηκο •	πίθηκους •, πιθήκους •
vocative	πίθηκε •	πίθηκοι •
Second forms are formal.

πίθηκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

References

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