σίραιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from σειρόω (seiróō) or alternatively from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sí.rai̯.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.rɛ.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.rɛ.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.re.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.re.on/
Noun
σῐ́ραιον • (sĭ́raion) n (genitive σῐραίου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σῐ́ραιον tò sĭ́raion |
τὼ σῐραίω tṑ sĭraíō |
τᾰ̀ σῐ́ραιᾰ tằ sĭ́raiă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῐραίου toû sĭraíou |
τοῖν σῐραίοιν toîn sĭraíoin |
τῶν σῐραίων tôn sĭraíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῐραίῳ tōî sĭraíōi |
τοῖν σῐραίοιν toîn sĭraíoin |
τοῖς σῐραίοις toîs sĭraíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σῐ́ραιον tò sĭ́raion |
τὼ σῐραίω tṑ sĭraíō |
τᾰ̀ σῐ́ραιᾰ tằ sĭ́raiă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῐ́ραιον sĭ́raion |
σῐραίω sĭraíō |
σῐ́ραιᾰ sĭ́raiă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σίραιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίραιον 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