σίαλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word has been connected with Ancient Greek σίαλον (síalon, “spittle, slobber”), Old English þwīnan (“to become weak”) and Proto-Slavic *tyti (“to become fat”) but all these proposals seem unconvincing. Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sí.a.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.a.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.a.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.a.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.a.los/
Noun
σίᾰλος • (síălos) m (genitive σῐάλου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σῐ́ᾰλος ho sĭ́ălos |
τὼ σῐᾰ́λω tṑ sĭắlō |
οἱ σῐ́ᾰλοι hoi sĭ́ăloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῐᾰ́λου toû sĭắlou |
τοῖν σῐᾰ́λοιν toîn sĭắloin |
τῶν σῐᾰ́λων tôn sĭắlōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῐᾰ́λῳ tōî sĭắlōi |
τοῖν σῐᾰ́λοιν toîn sĭắloin |
τοῖς σῐᾰ́λοις toîs sĭắlois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σῐ́ᾰλον tòn sĭ́ălon |
τὼ σῐᾰ́λω tṑ sĭắlō |
τοὺς σῐᾰ́λους toùs sĭắlous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῐ́ᾰλε sĭ́ăle |
σῐᾰ́λω sĭắlō |
σῐ́ᾰλοι sĭ́ăloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σιαλώδης (sialṓdēs)
Further reading
- “σίαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σίαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σίαλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σίαλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σίαλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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