σισύρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to σίσυρνα (sísurna) and σίσυς (sísus). According to Furnée, from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /si.sý.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈsy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈsy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈsy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈsi.ra/
Noun
σῐσύρᾱ • (sĭsúrā) f (genitive σῐσύρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῐσύρᾱ hē sĭsúrā |
τὼ σῐσύρᾱ tṑ sĭsúrā |
αἱ σῐσύραι hai sĭsúrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῐσύρᾱς tês sĭsúrās |
τοῖν σῐσύραιν toîn sĭsúrain |
τῶν σῐσυρῶν tôn sĭsurôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῐσύρᾳ tēî sĭsúrāi |
τοῖν σῐσύραιν toîn sĭsúrain |
ταῖς σῐσύραις taîs sĭsúrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῐσύρᾱν tḕn sĭsúrān |
τὼ σῐσύρᾱ tṑ sĭsúrā |
τᾱ̀ς σῐσύρᾱς tā̀s sĭsúrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῐσύρᾱ sĭsúrā |
σῐσύρᾱ sĭsúrā |
σῐσύραι sĭsúrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σισυροποιός (sisuropoiós)
Descendants
Further reading
- “σισύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σισύρα 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