σαπέρδης

Ancient Greek

Certainly a borrowing. Furnée adduces σάβειρος (sábeiros, “tub-fish”) as a variant, suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

σᾱπέρδης • (sāpérdēs) m (genitive σᾱπέρδου); first declension

kind of fish found in the Nile and in the Black Sea
Synonyms: κορακῖνος (korakînos), πλατίστακος (platístakos)

First declension of ὁ σᾱπέρδης; τοῦ σᾱπέρδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σᾱπέρδης ho sāpérdēs	τὼ σᾱπέρδᾱ tṑ sāpérdā	οἱ σᾱπέρδαι hoi sāpérdai
Genitive	τοῦ σᾱπέρδου toû sāpérdou	τοῖν σᾱπέρδαιν toîn sāpérdain	τῶν σᾱπερδῶν tôn sāperdôn
Dative	τῷ σᾱπέρδῃ tōî sāpérdēi	τοῖν σᾱπέρδαιν toîn sāpérdain	τοῖς σᾱπέρδαις toîs sāpérdais
Accusative	τὸν σᾱπέρδην tòn sāpérdēn	τὼ σᾱπέρδᾱ tṑ sāpérdā	τοὺς σᾱπέρδᾱς toùs sāpérdās
Vocative	σᾱπέρδη sāpérdē	σᾱπέρδᾱ sāpérdā	σᾱπέρδαι sāpérdai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.