συρφετός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύρω (súrō, “to drag, sweep”), with enlargement in -φ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syr.pʰe.tós/ → /syr.ɸeˈtos/ → /sir.feˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syr.pʰe.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syr.pʰeˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syr.ɸeˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syr.feˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sir.feˈtos/

Noun

σῠρφετός • (surphetós) m (genitive σῠρφετοῦ); second declension

1. anything dragged or swept together, sweepings, refuse, litter
2. (figuratively) mixed crowd, mob, rabble
3. (by extension) one of the mob, mobbist

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῠρφετός; τοῦ σῠρφετοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῠρφετός ho surphetós	τὼ σῠρφετώ tṑ surphetṓ	οἱ σῠρφετοί hoi surphetoí
Genitive	τοῦ σῠρφετοῦ toû surphetoû	τοῖν σῠρφετοῖν toîn surphetoîn	τῶν σῠρφετῶν tôn surphetôn
Dative	τῷ σῠρφετῷ tôi surphetôi	τοῖν σῠρφετοῖν toîn surphetoîn	τοῖς σῠρφετοῖς toîs surphetoîs
Accusative	τὸν σῠρφετόν tòn surphetón	τὼ σῠρφετώ tṑ surphetṓ	τοὺς σῠρφετούς toùs surphetoús
Vocative	σῠρφετέ surpheté	σῠρφετώ surphetṓ	σῠρφετοί surphetoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῠρφετώδης (surphetṓdēs)

Further reading

• “συρφετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “συρφετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• συρφετός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette