σιφνός

See also: Σίφνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same Pre-Greek root of σιφλός (siphlós, “crippled, lame”) and σιπαλός (sipalós, “blinded, maimed”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.pʰnós/ → /siˈɸnos/ → /siˈfnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.pʰnós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈpʰnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈɸnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈfnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈfnos/

Adjective

σιφνός • (siphnós)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: κενός (kenós, “empty, void”).

Further reading

• “σιφνός”, 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ