σιμός
See also: σῖμος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUncertain. Has been connected to Old High German swīnan, Old Norse svīna, as well as Middle High German swīmen, Old Norse svīma, though these are formally impossible (as Proto-Indo-European *sw- does not yield Greek σ- (s-)), and the theory relating the word to σῶμα (sôma, “body”) and σῆμᾰ (sêmă, “sign”) via a supposed Proto-Indo-European *tyeh₂- (“to strike”) is semantically improbable. Ultimately, all proposed connections are problematic, and Beekes suggests a likely Pre-Greek origin.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /siː.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /siˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /siˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /siˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /siˈmos/
Adjective
editσῑμός • (sīmós) m (feminine σῑμή, neuter σῑμόν); first/second declension
Inflection
editNumber | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | σῑμός sīmós |
σῑμή sīmḗ |
σῑμόν sīmón |
σῑμώ sīmṓ |
σῑμᾱ́ sīmā́ |
σῑμώ sīmṓ |
σῑμοί sīmoí |
σῑμαί sīmaí |
σῑμᾰ́ sīmắ | |||||
Genitive | σῑμοῦ sīmoû |
σῑμῆς sīmês |
σῑμοῦ sīmoû |
σῑμοῖν sīmoîn |
σῑμαῖν sīmaîn |
σῑμοῖν sīmoîn |
σῑμῶν sīmôn |
σῑμῶν sīmôn |
σῑμῶν sīmôn | |||||
Dative | σῑμῷ sīmôi |
σῑμῇ sīmêi |
σῑμῷ sīmôi |
σῑμοῖν sīmoîn |
σῑμαῖν sīmaîn |
σῑμοῖν sīmoîn |
σῑμοῖς sīmoîs |
σῑμαῖς sīmaîs |
σῑμοῖς sīmoîs | |||||
Accusative | σῑμόν sīmón |
σῑμήν sīmḗn |
σῑμόν sīmón |
σῑμώ sīmṓ |
σῑμᾱ́ sīmā́ |
σῑμώ sīmṓ |
σῑμούς sīmoús |
σῑμᾱ́ς sīmā́s |
σῑμᾰ́ sīmắ | |||||
Vocative | σῑμέ sīmé |
σῑμή sīmḗ |
σῑμόν sīmón |
σῑμώ sīmṓ |
σῑμᾱ́ sīmā́ |
σῑμώ sīmṓ |
σῑμοί sīmoí |
σῑμαί sīmaí |
σῑμᾰ́ sīmắ | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
σῑμῶς sīmôs |
σῑμότερος sīmóteros |
σῑμότᾰτος sīmótătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- → Latin: sīmus
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῑμός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1332-3
Further reading
edit- “σιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- snub-nosed idem, page 789.
- upturn idem, page 939.
- “σιμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011