σιγύνης
Ancient Greek
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editEtymology
editAccording to Herodotus and Aristotle, the word is Cyprian, whereas someone else says it's Scythian. The word resembles the ethnonym Σιγύνναι (Sigúnnai), a people of Iranian (Scythian) descent. According to Beekes, due to the presence of alternative forms, the word can be of Pre-Greek origin. The similarity with σιβύνη (sibúnē, “spear”) is only coincidental.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /si.ɡy̌ː.nɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈɡy.ne̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈʝy.nis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈʝy.nis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈʝi.nis/
Noun
editσιγύνης • (sigúnēs) m (genitive σιγύνου); first declension
- hunting spear
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σιγύνης ho sigúnēs |
τὼ σιγύνᾱ tṑ sigúnā |
οἱ σιγύναι hoi sigúnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σιγύνου toû sigúnou |
τοῖν σιγύναιν toîn sigúnain |
τῶν σιγυνῶν tôn sigunôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σιγύνῃ tôi sigúnēi |
τοῖν σιγύναιν toîn sigúnain |
τοῖς σιγύναις toîs sigúnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σιγύνην tòn sigúnēn |
τὼ σιγύνᾱ tṑ sigúnā |
τοὺς σιγύνᾱς toùs sigúnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σιγύνη sigúnē |
σιγύνᾱ sigúnā |
σιγύναι sigúnai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “σιγύνης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σιγύνης 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Scythian languages
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the first declension
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