σάμβαλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See σάνδαλον (sándalon).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sám.ba.lon/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/

Noun

σάμβᾰλον • (sámbălon) n (genitive σαμβάλου); second declension

Aeolic form of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”)
- 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 98:
  θυρώρῳ πόδες ἐπτορόγυιοι,
  τὰ δὲ σάμβαλα πεμπεβόηα,
  πίσσυγγοι δὲ δέκ' ἐξεπόναισαν.
  thurṓrōi pódes eptoróguioi,
  tà dè sámbala pempebóēa,
  píssungoi dè dék’ exepónaisan.
  The porter's feet are seven fathoms long,
  and his sandals are made of five ox-hides
  - ten cobblers laboured on them.

Derived terms

σαμβαλίσκον (sambalískon)
σαμβαλούχη (sambaloúkhē)

Further reading

“σάμβαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“σάμβαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
σάμβαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “σάμβαλον”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
σάμβαλον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011