σηκός
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Commonly connected with σάττω (sáttō, “to cram, to stuff”). However, the alternation rather points to Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sɛː.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /se̝ˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈkos/
Noun edit
σηκός • (sēkós) f (genitive σηκοῦ); second declension
- pen, fold, especially for rearing lambs, kids and calves
- sacred enclosure, precinct, dedicated to a hero
- sepulchre, burial place, enclosed and consecrated
- stump of an old olive tree
- weight in the balance
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σηκός hē sēkós |
τὼ σηκώ tṑ sēkṓ |
αἱ σηκοί hai sēkoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σηκοῦ tês sēkoû |
τοῖν σηκοῖν toîn sēkoîn |
τῶν σηκῶν tôn sēkôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σηκῷ têi sēkôi |
τοῖν σηκοῖν toîn sēkoîn |
ταῖς σηκοῖς taîs sēkoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σηκόν tḕn sēkón |
τὼ σηκώ tṑ sēkṓ |
τᾱ̀ς σηκούς tā̀s sēkoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | σηκέ sēké |
σηκώ sēkṓ |
σηκοί sēkoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Greek: σηκός (sikós)
Further reading edit
- “σηκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σηκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σηκός 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