σμῶδιξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The connection with σμῆν (smên) and σμώχω (smṓkhō, “to rub”) is formally and semantically unconvincing. It is rather a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zmɔ̂ː.diks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzmo.diks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzmo.ðiks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzmo.ðiks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzmo.ðiks/
Noun
σμῶδῐξ • (smôdĭx) f (genitive σμώδῐγγος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σμῶδῐξ hē smôdĭx |
τὼ σμώδῐγγε tṑ smṓdĭnge |
αἱ σμώδῐγγες hai smṓdĭnges | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σμώδῐγγος tês smṓdĭngos |
τοῖν σμωδῐ́γγοιν toîn smōdĭ́ngoin |
τῶν σμωδῐ́γγων tôn smōdĭ́ngōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σμώδῐγγῐ tēî smṓdĭngĭ |
τοῖν σμωδῐ́γγοιν toîn smōdĭ́ngoin |
ταῖς σμώδῐγξῐ / σμώδῐγξῐν taîs smṓdĭnxĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σμώδῐγγᾰ tḕn smṓdĭngă |
τὼ σμώδῐγγε tṑ smṓdĭnge |
τᾱ̀ς σμώδῐγγᾰς tā̀s smṓdĭngăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σμῶδῐξ smôdĭx |
σμώδῐγγε smṓdĭnge |
σμώδῐγγες smṓdĭnges | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σμῶδιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σμῶδιξ 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