πίσος

See also: πῖσος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πίσον (píson) (neu. also for the plant)
• πισός (pisós) — Koine (masc.)

Etymology

A loanword from an unknown source,^[1] with some possibilities including Thracian and Phrygian.^[2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pí.sos/ → /ˈpi.sos/ → /ˈpi.sos/

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

Noun

πῐ́σος • (písos) m (genitive πῐ́σου); second declension

1. pea, pease, seed of Pisum sativum

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πῐ́σος ho písos	τὼ πῐ́σω tṑ písō	οἱ πῐ́σοι hoi písoi
Genitive	τοῦ πῐ́σου toû písou	τοῖν πῐ́σοιν toîn písoin	τῶν πῐ́σων tôn písōn
Dative	τῷ πῐ́σῳ tôi písōi	τοῖν πῐ́σοιν toîn písoin	τοῖς πῐ́σοις toîs písois
Accusative	τὸν πῐ́σον tòn píson	τὼ πῐ́σω tṑ písō	τοὺς πῐ́σους toùs písous
Vocative	πῐ́σε píse	πῐ́σω písō	πῐ́σοι písoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ πῐ́σος; τοῦ πῐ́σου (Attic)

See also

• ᾰ̓́ρᾰκος (árakos) & αρακάς (arakás) (masculines)
• Latin: pisum (neuter)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πίσος”, 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
2. Hofmann, J. B. (1949) “πίσος”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen‎ (in German), Munich: R. Oldenbourg [translated in Greek by Antonius D. Papanikolaou, Athens: n.p. 1974.]

Further reading

• “πίσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πίσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers