Πηνειός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“mire, bog”).[1] Cognate with Latin Pannonia, Old Prussian pannean (“bog”), Middle Irish en (“water”), Dutch veen, Old English fenn (English fen).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Πηνειός • (Pēneiós) m (genitive Πηνειοῦ); second declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Peneus, a river god
  2. the river Peneus

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Πηνειός; τοῦ Πηνειοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Πηνειός
ho Pēneiós
Genitive τοῦ Πηνειοῦ
toû Pēneioû
Dative τῷ Πηνειῷ
tôi Pēneiôi
Accusative τὸν Πηνειόν
tòn Pēneión
Vocative Πηνειέ
Pēneié
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Greek: Πηνειός (Pineiós)
  • Latin: Pēnēus

References
  1. Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127

Further reading
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