σεῦκλον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σεῦκτον (seûkton) — in John the Physician’s Therapeutics, possibly a scribal error^[1]

Pronunciation

(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsef.klon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsef.klon/

Noun

σεῦκλον • (seûklon) n (genitive σεύκλου); second declension

Byzantine form of τεῦτλον (teûtlon, “beet”)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ σεῦκλον; τοῦ σεύκλου (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σεῦκλον tò seûklon	τᾰ̀ σεῦκλᾰ tằ seûklă
Genitive	τοῦ σεύκλου toû seúklou	τῶν σεύκλων tôn seúklōn
Dative	τῷ σεύκλῳ tōî seúklōi	τοῖς σεύκλοις toîs seúklois
Accusative	τὸ σεῦκλον tò seûklon	τᾰ̀ σεῦκλᾰ tằ seûklă
Vocative	σεῦκλον seûklon	σεῦκλᾰ seûklă

Derived terms

σευκλογουλάς (seuklogoulás)
σευκλογούλιν (seuklogoúlin)

Descendants

⇒ Greek: σέσκουλο (séskoulo)
→ Bulgarian: цвекло́ (cvekló)
→ Old Church Slavonic: свеклъ (sveklŭ)
- → Romanian: sfeclă
→ Old East Slavic: сеѵклъ (sevklŭ)
- Russian: свёкла (svjókla)
→ Hungarian: cékla (via Slavic)
→ Macedonian: цвекло (cveklo)
→ Serbo-Croatian: cȉkla, cvȅkla
→ Slovak: cvikla
→ Yiddish: צוויק (tsvik) (via Slavic)

References

^ σεῦκτον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Further reading

σευκλογούλιν in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften