σεμίδαλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Semitic, the same source of Latin simila (“wheat flour”), Arabic سَمِيذ (samīḏ), Aramaic סְמִידָא / ܣܡܻܝܕܳܐ (səmīḏā), 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

 

• IPA^(key): /se.mí.daː.lis/ → /seˈmi.ða.lis/ → /seˈmi.ða.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /se.mí.daː.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.da.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/

Noun

σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς • (semídālis) f (genitive σεμῐδᾱ́λῐος or σεμῐδᾱ́λεως); third declension

1. the finest wheaten flour

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς; τῆς σεμῐδᾱ́λεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς hē semídālis	τὼ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tṑ semidā́lei	αἱ σεμῐδᾱ́λεις hai semidā́leis
Genitive	τῆς σεμῐδᾱ́λεως tês semidā́leōs	τοῖν σεμῐδᾱλέοιν toîn semidāléoin	τῶν σεμῐδᾱ́λεων tôn semidā́leōn
Dative	τῇ σεμῐδᾱ́λει têi semidā́lei	τοῖν σεμῐδᾱλέοιν toîn semidāléoin	ταῖς σεμῐδᾱ́λεσῐ / σεμῐδᾱ́λεσῐν taîs semidā́lesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σεμῐ́δᾱλῐν tḕn semídālin	τὼ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tṑ semidā́lei	τᾱ̀ς σεμῐδᾱ́λεις tā̀s semidā́leis
Vocative	σεμῐ́δᾱλῐ semídāli	σεμῐδᾱ́λει semidā́lei	σεμῐδᾱ́λεις semidā́leis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σεμιδᾱ́λιον (semidā́lion)
• σεμιδᾱλίτης (semidālítēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: σιμιγδάλι (simigdáli)

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
• 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
• Szemerényi, Oswald (1974) “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies‎^[1], volume 94, →DOI, page 156

Greek

Noun

σεμίδαλις • (semídalis) f

1. Katharevousa form of σιμιγδάλι (simigdáli, “semolina”)