σίσυς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Furnée, from the same Pre-Greek root of σισύρα (sisúra) and σίσυρνα (sísurna).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sí.sys/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sis/
Noun
σῐ́σῠς • (sĭ́sŭs) m (genitive σῐ́σῠος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σῐ́σῠς ho sĭ́sŭs |
τὼ σῐ́σῠε tṑ sĭ́sŭe |
οἱ σῐ́σῠες hoi sĭ́sŭes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῐ́σῠος toû sĭ́sŭos |
τοῖν σῐσῠ́οιν toîn sĭsŭ́oin |
τῶν σῐσῠ́ων tôn sĭsŭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῐ́σῠῐ̈ / σῐ́συι tōî sĭ́sŭĭ̈ / sĭ́sui |
τοῖν σῐσῠ́οιν toîn sĭsŭ́oin |
τοῖς σῐ́σῠσῐ / σῐ́σῠσῐν toîs sĭ́sŭsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σῐ́σῠν tòn sĭ́sŭn |
τὼ σῐ́σῠε tṑ sĭ́sŭe |
τοὺς σῐ́σῡς / σῐ́σῠᾰς toùs sĭ́sūs / sĭ́sŭăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῐ́σῠ sĭ́sŭ |
σῐ́σῠε sĭ́sŭe |
σῐ́σῠες sĭ́sŭes | ||||||||||
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References
- “σίσυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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