σέσυφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, in view of the reduplication, and probably related to Σίσυφος (Sísuphos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.ɸos/ → /ˈse.si.fos/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈse.si.fos/

Adjective

σέσυφος • (sésuphos)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: πανοῦργος (panoûrgos, “knavish, villainous”).

Further reading

• “σέσυφος”, 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