σαμψήρα
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom an Iranian source common to Old Armenian սուսեր (suser, “sword”), Classical Syriac ܣܦܣܝܪܐ (sap̄sērāʾ, “sword”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic ספסרא, ספסירא (sap̄sērāʾ, “sword”) and Persian شمشیر (šamšir, “sword”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /samp.sɛ̌ː.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sampˈse̝.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sampˈsi.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sampˈsi.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sampˈsi.ra/
Noun
editσᾰμψήρᾱ • (sampsḗrā) f (genitive σᾰμψήρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ἡ σᾰμψήρᾱ hē sampsḗrā |
τὼ σᾰμψήρᾱ tṑ sampsḗrā |
αἱ σᾰμψῆραι hai sampsêrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σᾰμψήρᾱς tês sampsḗrās |
τοῖν σᾰμψήραιν toîn sampsḗrain |
τῶν σᾰμψηρῶν tôn sampsērôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σᾰμψήρᾳ têi sampsḗrāi |
τοῖν σᾰμψήραιν toîn sampsḗrain |
ταῖς σᾰμψήραις taîs sampsḗrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σᾰμψήρᾱν tḕn sampsḗrān |
τὼ σᾰμψήρᾱ tṑ sampsḗrā |
τᾱ̀ς σᾰμψήρᾱς tā̀s sampsḗrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σᾰμψήρᾱ sampsḗrā |
σᾰμψήρᾱ sampsḗrā |
σᾰμψῆραι sampsêrai | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Further reading
edit- “σαμψήρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαμψήρα 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Iranian languages
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Swords