Greek

Proper noun

Περιστερά • ‎(Peristerá) f

1. (astronomy) Columba (constellation)

Declension

Related terms

• see: περιστέρι n ‎(peristéri, “pigeon”)

External links

• Περιστερά on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /peristerá/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /peristerá/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /peɾisteɾá/

Noun

περιστερά • ‎(peristerá) f ‎(genitive περιστερᾶς); first declension

1. pigeon, dove

Inflection

Related terms

• περιστερός ‎(peristerós)

References

• περιστερά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• περιστερά in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «περιστερά» 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
• “G4058”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «περιστερά» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dove idem, page 248.

Greek

Alternative forms

• περιστέρι n ‎(peristéri) (the usual form)

Noun

περιστερά • ‎(peristerá) f ‎(plural περιστερές)

1. (learned) pigeon
2. (religeon) the dove (representing the Holy Spirit; the bird released by Noah)

Declension

Related terms

• see: περιστέρι n ‎(peristéri, “pigeon”)