σάρισα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σάρισσα (sárissa)
Etymology
The etymology is still unexplained. Perhaps from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sá.riː.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsa.ri.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.ri.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.ri.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.ri.sa/
Noun
σάρῑσᾰ • (sárīsă) f (genitive σᾰρῑ́σης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σᾰ́ρῑσᾰ hē sắrīsă |
τὼ σᾰρῑ́σᾱ tṑ sărī́sā |
αἱ σᾰ́ρῑσαι hai sắrīsai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σᾰρῑ́σης tês sărī́sēs |
τοῖν σᾰρῑ́σαιν toîn sărī́sain |
τῶν σᾰρῑσῶν tôn sărīsôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σᾰρῑ́σῃ tēî sărī́sēi |
τοῖν σᾰρῑ́σαιν toîn sărī́sain |
ταῖς σᾰρῑ́σαις taîs sărī́sais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σᾰ́ρῑσᾰν tḕn sắrīsăn |
τὼ σᾰρῑ́σᾱ tṑ sărī́sā |
τᾱ̀ς σᾰρῑ́σᾱς tā̀s sărī́sās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σᾰ́ρῑσᾰ sắrīsă |
σᾰρῑ́σᾱ sărī́sā |
σᾰ́ρῑσαι sắrīsai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σαρῑσοφόρος (sarīsophóros)
Descendants
- Latin: sarissa
References
- “σάρισα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάρισα 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