σέσιλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Probably related to σέμελος (sémelos, “snail”) and perhaps both of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sé.siː.los/ → /ˈse.si.los/ → /ˈse.si.los/

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

Noun

σέσῑλος • (sésīlos) m (genitive σεσῑ́λου); second declension

1. land snail

   Synonyms: κόχλος (kókhlos), στρόμβος (strómbos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σέσῑλος; τοῦ σεσῑ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σέσῑλος ho sésīlos	τὼ σεσῑ́λω tṑ sesī́lō	οἱ σέσῑλοι hoi sésīloi
Genitive	τοῦ σεσῑ́λου toû sesī́lou	τοῖν σεσῑ́λοιν toîn sesī́loin	τῶν σεσῑ́λων tôn sesī́lōn
Dative	τῷ σεσῑ́λῳ tôi sesī́lōi	τοῖν σεσῑ́λοιν toîn sesī́loin	τοῖς σεσῑ́λοις toîs sesī́lois
Accusative	τὸν σέσῑλον tòn sésīlon	τὼ σεσῑ́λω tṑ sesī́lō	τοὺς σεσῑ́λους toùs sesī́lous
Vocative	σέσῑλε sésīle	σεσῑ́λω sesī́lō	σέσῑλοι sésīloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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