σιτάριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

σῖτος (sîtos, “grain, corn, bread”) +‎ -άριον (-árion, “diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /siː.tá.ri.on/ → /siˈta.ri.on/ → /siˈta.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /siː.tá.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈta.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈta.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈta.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈta.ri.on/

Noun

σῑτάρῐον • (sītárion) n (genitive σῑτᾰρίου); second declension

1. a little bit of corn or bread

Declension

Second declension of τὸ σῑτᾰ́ρῐον; τοῦ σῑτᾰρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῑτᾰ́ρῐον tò sītárion	τὼ σῑτᾰρῐ́ω tṑ sītaríō	τᾰ̀ σῑτᾰ́ρῐᾰ tà sītária
Genitive	τοῦ σῑτᾰρῐ́ου toû sītaríou	τοῖν σῑτᾰρῐ́οιν toîn sītaríoin	τῶν σῑτᾰρῐ́ων tôn sītaríōn
Dative	τῷ σῑτᾰρῐ́ῳ tôi sītaríōi	τοῖν σῑτᾰρῐ́οιν toîn sītaríoin	τοῖς σῑτᾰρῐ́οις toîs sītaríois
Accusative	τὸ σῑτᾰ́ρῐον tò sītárion	τὼ σῑτᾰρῐ́ω tṑ sītaríō	τᾰ̀ σῑτᾰ́ρῐᾰ tà sītária
Vocative	σῑτᾰ́ρῐον sītárion	σῑτᾰρῐ́ω sītaríō	σῑτᾰ́ρῐᾰ sītária
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σιτάρι (sitári)

Further reading

• σιτάριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σιτάριον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “σιτάριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σιτάριον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011