περσικόν
See also: Περσικόν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ellipsis of Περσικὸν μῆλον (Persikòn mêlon, literally “Persian tree-fruit”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /per.si.kón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /per.siˈkon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /per.siˈkon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /per.siˈkon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /per.siˈkon/
Noun
περσῐκόν • (persĭkón) n (genitive περσῐκοῦ); second declension
- (countable, uncountable) peach (soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed)
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ περσῐκόν tò persĭkón |
τὼ περσῐκώ tṑ persĭkṓ |
τᾰ̀ περσῐκᾰ́ tằ persĭkắ | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ περσῐκοῦ toû persĭkoû |
τοῖν περσῐκοῖν toîn persĭkoîn |
τῶν περσῐκῶν tôn persĭkôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ περσῐκῷ tōî persĭkōî |
τοῖν περσῐκοῖν toîn persĭkoîn |
τοῖς περσῐκοῖς toîs persĭkoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ περσῐκόν tò persĭkón |
τὼ περσῐκώ tṑ persĭkṓ |
τᾰ̀ περσῐκᾰ́ tằ persĭkắ | ||||||||||
| Vocative | περσῐκόν persĭkón |
περσῐκώ persĭkṓ |
περσῐκᾰ́ persĭkắ | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- περσικός (persikós)
Descendants
- Aramaic: פּרְסִיקָא (pirsīqā), פּרְסְקָא (pirsəqā)
- Latin: persicum (see there for further descendants)
Related terms
- περσική (persikḗ, “peach tree”)
Further reading
- Περσικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Περσικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Περσικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- περσικός in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, page 603
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “Περσικός”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 900