πιττάκιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Not related to πίττα (pítta, “pitch, tar”), also from πίσσα (píssa), from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). The Latin sense "patch of leather" as well as the term πεττύκια (pettúkia), have led to a dubious hypothesis of relation with πίσ(σ)υγγος (pís(s)ungos, “shoemaker”). Beekes rejects a different hypothesis which posits a relation with Πιττακός (Pittakós), from Thrace via Lesvos island.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pitˈta.ci.on/ → /piˈta.ci.on/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pitˈta.ki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pitˈta.ci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pitˈta.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /piˈta.ci.on/

Noun

πιττάκιον • (pittákion) n (genitive πιττᾰκίου); second declension (Koine)

1. writing tablet
2. a leaf out of a writing tablet, receipt, ticket, pass
3. message
4. a list of members of an association
5. the sense: patch of leather for laying salve on, at Latin pittacium)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ πῐττᾰ́κῐον; τοῦ πῐττᾰκῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πῐττᾰ́κῐον tò pittákion	τὼ πῐττᾰκῐ́ω tṑ pittakíō	τᾰ̀ πῐττᾰ́κῐᾰ tà pittákia
Genitive	τοῦ πῐττᾰκῐ́ου toû pittakíou	τοῖν πῐττᾰκῐ́οιν toîn pittakíoin	τῶν πῐττᾰκῐ́ων tôn pittakíōn
Dative	τῷ πῐττᾰκῐ́ῳ tôi pittakíōi	τοῖν πῐττᾰκῐ́οιν toîn pittakíoin	τοῖς πῐττᾰκῐ́οις toîs pittakíois
Accusative	τὸ πῐττᾰ́κῐον tò pittákion	τὼ πῐττᾰκῐ́ω tṑ pittakíō	τᾰ̀ πῐττᾰ́κῐᾰ tà pittákia
Vocative	πῐττᾰ́κῐον pittákion	πῐττᾰκῐ́ω pittakíō	πῐττᾰ́κῐᾰ pittákia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πιττακιάρχης (pittakiárkhēs)
• πιττακίδιον (pittakídion) (diminutive)
• πιττακίζω (pittakízō)
• and see the Medieval πιττάτσιν (pittátsin)

Descendants

• > Byzantine Greek: πιττάτσιν (pittátsin) (inherited)
  • → Greek: πιττάκιο (pittákio) (learned)
• → Arabic: بِطَاقَة (biṭāqa)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بطاقه (bitaka)
• → Aramaic: פטקא (peṭqā)
• → Classical Syriac: ܦܛܩܐ (peṭqā), ܦܬܩܐ (piṯqā)
• → Latin: pittacium
  • Asturian: pedazu, piozu
  • Catalan: pedaç
  • Italian: petacciola, petaccia, petazza
  • Occitan: pedaç, petaç
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pedaço
    • Galician: pedazo
    • Portuguese: pedaço
  • Romanian: petic (possibly), petec (possibly)
  • Sicilian: pitazzu
  • Old Spanish: pedaço
    • Spanish: pedazo
• → Old Armenian: պիտակ (pitak)
  • → Armenian: պիտակ (pitak)
• → Old Georgian: პიტაკი (ṗiṭaḳi)

Further reading

• “πιττάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πιττάκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Boisacq, Émile (1916) “πιττάκιον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 788
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “πιττάκιον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 892