σεμίδαλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Semitic, the same source of Latin simila (“wheat flour”), Arabic سَمِيذ (samīḏ), Aramaic סְמִידָא / ܣܡܻܝܕܳܐ (səmīḏā),[1] from Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯 (/samīdu/, “a type of fine groats, coarse flour, semolina”), related to Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒄯𒄯 (/samādu/, “to grind fine”). Borrowed through Hittite, where -alla-, -alli- is an adjective formant.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.mí.daː.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈmi.da.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
Noun
σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς • (semĭ́dālĭs) f (genitive σεμῐδᾱ́λῐος or σεμῐδᾱ́λεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς hē semĭ́dālĭs |
τὼ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tṑ semĭdā́lei |
αἱ σεμῐδᾱ́λεις hai semĭdā́leis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σεμῐδᾱ́λεως tês semĭdā́leōs |
τοῖν σεμῐδᾱλέοιν toîn semĭdāléoin |
τῶν σεμῐδᾱ́λεων tôn semĭdā́leōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tēî semĭdā́lei |
τοῖν σεμῐδᾱλέοιν toîn semĭdāléoin |
ταῖς σεμῐδᾱ́λεσῐ / σεμῐδᾱ́λεσῐν taîs semĭdā́lesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σεμῐ́δᾱλῐν tḕn semĭ́dālĭn |
τὼ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tṑ semĭdā́lei |
τᾱ̀ς σεμῐδᾱ́λεις tā̀s semĭdā́leis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σεμῐ́δᾱλῐ semĭ́dālĭ |
σεμῐδᾱ́λει semĭdā́lei |
σεμῐδᾱ́λεις semĭdā́leis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σεμιδᾱ́λιον (semidā́lion)
- σεμιδᾱλίτης (semidālítēs)
Descendants
- Greek: σιμιγδάλι (simigdáli)
- → Georgian: სამინდალი (samindali)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σεμίδᾱλις, -ιος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1320
Further reading
- “σεμίδαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σεμίδαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σεμίδαλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1974) “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies[1], volume 94, , page 156
- σεμίδαλις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Noun
σεμίδαλις • (semídalis) f
- Katharevousa form of σιμιγδάλι (simigdáli, “semolina”)