σάλπη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σάλπος (sálpos), σάρπη (sárpē)
Etymology
From Egyptian, found in Coptic ϫⲉⲗϥⲁⲧ (čelfat), ⲥⲗⲃⲟⲧ (slbot), Arabic شِلْبَا (šilbā), or perhaps already Pre-Greek and of shared origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sál.pɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsal.pe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsal.pi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsal.pi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsal.pi/
Noun
σᾰ́λπη • (sắlpē) f (genitive σᾰ́λπης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σᾰ́λπη hē sắlpē |
τὼ σᾰ́λπᾱ tṑ sắlpā |
αἱ σᾰ́λπαι hai sắlpai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σᾰ́λπης tês sắlpēs |
τοῖν σᾰ́λπαιν toîn sắlpain |
τῶν σᾰλπῶν tôn sălpôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σᾰ́λπῃ tēî sắlpēi |
τοῖν σᾰ́λπαιν toîn sắlpain |
ταῖς σᾰ́λπαις taîs sắlpais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σᾰ́λπην tḕn sắlpēn |
τὼ σᾰ́λπᾱ tṑ sắlpā |
τᾱ̀ς σᾰ́λπᾱς tā̀s sắlpās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σᾰ́λπη sắlpē |
σᾰ́λπᾱ sắlpā |
σᾰ́λπαι sắlpai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- “σάλπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάλπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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, →ISBN
- Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth (1928) “On Egyptian Fish-Names used by Greek Writers”, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 14, , pages 29–30