σαῦρος
Ancient GreekEdit
EtymologyEdit
Possibly variant of σαῦλος (saûlos, “turning, twisting”), else of σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sâu̯.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.βros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vros/
NounEdit
σαῦρος • (saûros) m (genitive σαύρου); second declension
- Alternative form of σαύρᾱ (saúrā, “lizard”)
- horse mackerel, jack mackerel
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σαῦρος ho saûros |
τὼ σαύρω tṑ saúrō |
οἱ σαῦροι hoi saûroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σαύρου toû saúrou |
τοῖν σαύροιν toîn saúroin |
τῶν σαύρων tôn saúrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σαύρῳ tôi saúrōi |
τοῖν σαύροιν toîn saúroin |
τοῖς σαύροις toîs saúrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σαῦρον tòn saûron |
τὼ σαύρω tṑ saúrō |
τοὺς σαύρους toùs saúrous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σαῦρε saûre |
σαύρω saúrō |
σαῦροι saûroi | ||||||||||
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SynonymsEdit
- τρᾱ́χουρος (trā́khouros, “horse mackerel”)
DescendantsEdit
- Byzantine Greek: σαυρίς (saurís), σαυρίδιον (saurídion)
- → New Latin: -saurus (learned)
- → Translingual: Saurus
ReferencesEdit
- “σαῦρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαῦρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1970), “σαῦρος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 683