Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πίθακος ‎(píthakos) (Doric)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /píθikos/

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

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

Noun

πίθηκος • ‎(píthēkos) m ‎(genitive πιθήκου); second declension

1. ape, monkey
2. trickster
3. dwarf

Inflection

Derived terms

• κερκοπίθηκος ‎(kerkopíthēkos)
• πιθηκοειδής ‎(pithēkoeidḗs)

Descendants

• English: pithec-

References

• πίθηκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πίθηκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πίθηκος» 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ape idem, page 33.
  • baboon idem, page 57.
  • monkey idem, page 539.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίθηκος ‎(píthēkos).

Noun

πίθηκος • ‎(píthikos) m ‎(plural πίθηκοι)

1. ape, monkey
2. an uncivilised person

Declension