συγχίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• συκχάς (sukkhás), σύκχος (súkkhos)

Etymology

Probably from a substrate language of Asia Minor, possibly Phrygian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syŋ.kʰís/ → /syɲˈçis/ → /siɲˈçis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syŋ.kʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syŋˈkʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syɲˈçis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syɲˈçis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siɲˈçis/

Noun

συγχίς • (sunkhís) f (genitive συγχίδος); third declension

1. A kind of shoe or sock

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῠγχί̆ς; τῆς σῠγχῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῠγχί̆ς hē sunkhís	τὼ σῠγχῐ́δε tṑ sunkhíde	αἱ σῠγχῐ́δες hai sunkhídes
Genitive	τῆς σῠγχῐ́δος tês sunkhídos	τοῖν σῠγχῐ́δοιν toîn sunkhídoin	τῶν σῠγχῐ́δων tôn sunkhídōn
Dative	τῇ σῠγχῐ́δῐ têi sunkhídi	τοῖν σῠγχῐ́δοιν toîn sunkhídoin	ταῖς σῠγχῐ́σῐ / σῠγχῐ́σῐν taîs sunkhísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῠγχῐ́δᾰ tḕn sunkhída	τὼ σῠγχῐ́δε tṑ sunkhíde	τᾱ̀ς σῠγχῐ́δᾰς tā̀s sunkhídas
Vocative	σῠγχί̆ς sunkhís	σῠγχῐ́δε sunkhíde	σῠγχῐ́δες sunkhídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “συγχίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συγχίς 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