σαῦσαξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Older etymologies involve connections with σαυκρόν (saukrón, “delicate, light”), σαυχμόν (saukhmón, “tender, unsound, weak”) and σαυσαρόν (sausarón, “whispering, slanderous”). Furnée is undoubtedly correct in connecting σώσικες (sṓsikes, “cooked beans”), which shows that the word is Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sâu̯.saks/ → /ˈsaɸ.saks/ → /ˈsaf.saks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sâu̯.saks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʍ.saks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɸ.saks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsaf.saks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsaf.saks/

Noun

σαῦσᾰξ • (saûsax) m (genitive σαῡ́σᾰκος); third declension

1. kind of leguminous plant

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ σαῦσᾰξ; τοῦ σαῡ́σᾰκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σαῦσᾰξ ho saûsax	τὼ σαῡ́σᾰκε tṑ saū́sake	οἱ σαῡ́σᾰκες hoi saū́sakes
Genitive	τοῦ σαῡ́σᾰκος toû saū́sakos	τοῖν σαῡσᾰ́κοιν toîn saūsákoin	τῶν σαῡσᾰ́κων tôn saūsákōn
Dative	τῷ σαῡ́σᾰκῐ tôi saū́saki	τοῖν σαῡσᾰ́κοιν toîn saūsákoin	τοῖς σαῡ́σᾰξῐ / σαῡ́σᾰξῐν toîs saū́saxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σαῡ́σᾰκᾰ tòn saū́saka	τὼ σαῡ́σᾰκε tṑ saū́sake	τοὺς σαῡ́σᾰκᾰς toùs saū́sakas
Vocative	σαῦσᾰξ saûsax	σαῡ́σᾰκε saū́sake	σαῡ́σᾰκες saū́sakes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σαῦσαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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