πίθηκος

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Commonly connected with Latin foedus (“ugly”), as if from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰid-, *bʰoyd-. Beekes argues for an origin as a substrate loan-word or perhaps Pre-Greek.

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

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.

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

πίθηκος • (píthikos) m (plural πίθηκοι)

declension of πίθηκος

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