σέρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σέρεις (séreis)

Etymology

Beekes gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sé.ris/ → /ˈse.ris/ → /ˈse.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sé.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/

Noun

σέρῐς • (séris) f (genitive σέρῐδος); third declension

1. endive or chicory

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σέρῐς; τῆς σέρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σέρῐς hē séris	τὼ σέρῐδε tṑ séride	αἱ σέρῐδες hai sérides
Genitive	τῆς σέρῐδος tês séridos	τοῖν σερῐ́δοιν toîn serídoin	τῶν σερῐ́δων tôn serídōn
Dative	τῇ σέρῐδῐ têi séridi	τοῖν σερῐ́δοιν toîn serídoin	ταῖς σέρῐσῐ / σέρῐσῐν taîs sérisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σέρῐδᾰ tḕn sérida	τὼ σέρῐδε tṑ séride	τᾱ̀ς σέρῐδᾰς tā̀s séridas
Vocative	σέρῐς séris	σέρῐδε séride	σέρῐδες sérides
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ὑόσερις (huóseris)

Descendants

• Latin: seris

References

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