Παλλάς

See also: Πάλλας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From παλλακίς (pallakís, “concubine”), most likely from Proto-Indo-European *parikeh₂ (“concubine, wanton woman”), related to Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬐𐬁‎ (pairikā, “demonic courtesan”) and Manichaean Parthian pryg‎ (parīg).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pal.lás/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /palˈlas/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /palˈlas/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /palˈlas/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /paˈlas/

Proper noun

Παλλάς • (Pallás) f (genitive Παλλάδος); third declension

Pallas, daughter of Triton
Pallas (Athena)

Usage notes

Παλλάς (Pallás) is feminine and uses the third declension stem Παλλάδ-. The similarly-spelt name Πάλλας (Pállas) is masculine and uses the different third declension stem Πάλλαντ-.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Πᾰλλᾰ́ς; τῆς Πᾰλλᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πᾰλλᾰ́ς hē Pallás
Genitive	τῆς Πᾰλλᾰ́δος tês Palládos
Dative	τῇ Πᾰλλᾰ́δῐ têi Palládi
Accusative	τὴν Πᾰλλᾰ́δᾰ tḕn Palláda
Vocative	Πᾰλλᾰ́ς Pallás
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.

Derived terms

Παλλάδιον (Palládion)

Descendants

Greek: Παλλάδα (Palláda)

References

Παλλάς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Παλλάς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Παλλάς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Παλλάς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003

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