πυραλίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πῠρᾰλλίς (purallís), πῠρρᾰλίς (purrhalís)

Etymology

Diminutive formation in "-α(λ)λίς", probably from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) after the reddish color. However, according to Niedermann, it derives from πυρός (purós, “wheat”) after its nutrition.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /py.ra.lís/ → /py.raˈlis/ → /pi.raˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /py.ra.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /py.raˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /py.raˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /py.raˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.raˈlis/

Noun

πῠρᾰλῐ́ς • (puralís) f (genitive πῠρᾰλῐ́δος); third declension

1. unknown bird, perhaps a kind of pigeon
2. insect said to live in fire
3. red kind of olive

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ πῠρᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς πῠρᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῠρᾰλῐ́ς hē puralís	τὼ πῠρᾰλῐ́δε tṑ puralíde	αἱ πῠρᾰλῐ́δες hai puralídes
Genitive	τῆς πῠρᾰλῐ́δος tês puralídos	τοῖν πῠρᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn puralídoin	τῶν πῠρᾰλῐ́δων tôn puralídōn
Dative	τῇ πῠρᾰλῐ́δῐ têi puralídi	τοῖν πῠρᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn puralídoin	ταῖς πῠρᾰλῐ́σῐ / πῠρᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs puralísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν πῠρᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn puralída	τὼ πῠρᾰλῐ́δε tṑ puralíde	τᾱ̀ς πῠρᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s puralídas
Vocative	πῠρᾰλῐ́ς puralís	πῠρᾰλῐ́δε puralíde	πῠρᾰλῐ́δες puralídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: pyralis
• → Translingual: Pyralis

Further reading

• “πυραλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πυραλίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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