σίσυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Furnée, from the same Pre-Greek root of σισύρα (sisúra) and σίσυρνα (sísurna).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.sys/ → /ˈsi.sys/ → /ˈsi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.sys/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sis/

Noun

σῐ́σῠς • (sísus) m (genitive σῐ́σῠος); third declension

1. any coarse or cheap garment

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ σῐ́σῠς; τοῦ σῐ́σῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́σῠς ho sísus	τὼ σῐ́σῠε tṑ sísue	οἱ σῐ́σῠες hoi sísues
Genitive	τοῦ σῐ́σῠος toû sísuos	τοῖν σῐσῠ́οιν toîn sisúoin	τῶν σῐσῠ́ων tôn sisúōn
Dative	τῷ σῐ́σῠῐ̈ / σῐ́συι tôi sísuï / sísui	τοῖν σῐσῠ́οιν toîn sisúoin	τοῖς σῐ́σῠσῐ / σῐ́σῠσῐν toîs sísusi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́σῠν tòn sísun	τὼ σῐ́σῠε tṑ sísue	τοὺς σῐ́σῡς / σῐ́σῠᾰς toùs sísūs / sísuas
Vocative	σῐ́σῠ sísu	σῐ́σῠε sísue	σῐ́σῠες sísues
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “σίσυς”, 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