σιγύνης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σίγυμνον (sígumnon)
• σίγυνον (sígunon)

Etymology

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

 

• IPA^(key): /si.ɡy̌ː.nɛːs/ → /siˈʝy.nis/ → /siˈʝi.nis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.ɡy̌ː.nɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈɡy.ne̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈʝy.nis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈʝy.nis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈʝi.nis/

Noun

σιγύνης • (sigúnēs) m (genitive σιγύνου); first declension

1. hunting spear

Inflection

First declension of ὁ σιγύνης; τοῦ σιγύνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “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