- περιστερά
- περιστεράGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `pidgeon' (IA.), second. -ός m. `cock pidgeon' (Com.; Schwyzer-Debrunner 31 n. 5, 32).Compounds: As 1. member a.o. in περιστερο-πώλης m. `pidgeon-vendor' (hell. pap.).Derivatives: Dimin. περιστερ-ίς f. and -ιον n. (also used as decoration of women), -ίδιον n. (Com., pap.), -ιδεύς m. (hell. pap.; Bosshardt 65); -(ε)ών m. `pigeonry' (Pl., pap.). On -ιον, -εών as plantnames `Verbena officinalis, supina' (Dsc, Ps.-Dsc.), because visited and loved by doves, s. Strömberg 118 and Moorhouse (s. bel.).Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Not certainly explained. Perhaps with Schwyzer 258 to πελιός, πέλεια through false restitution of a supposed dissimilated *πελιστερά (cf. NGr. πελιστέρι) with oppositive τερο-suffix (Benveniste Noms d'agent 119 w. Iran. parallel). -- To be rejected Moorhouse Class Quart. 44, 73ff., AmJPh 73, 299 and Richardson Hermathena 73, 74f. (to περί), Assmann Phil. 66, 312f. (Semit.).Page in Frisk: 2,514
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.