σιγύνης
Ancient Greek edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
According 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 edit
σιγύνης • (sigúnēs) m (genitive σιγύνου); first declension
- hunting spear
Inflection edit
Case / # | 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