Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷʰh₂el- (to stumble).[1] Compare Old Armenian սխալեմ (sxalem, to err), Sanskrit स्खलति (skhalati, to stumble) and possibly Latin fallō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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σφᾰ́λλω (sphállō)

  1. (active voice)
    1. to topple, overthrow
    2. to kill
    3. to baffle
  2. (passive voice)
    1. to be foiled
    2. to fall, to be cast down (from a figurative or literal elevated place)
    3. to stagger, reel

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: σφάλλω (sfállo)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σφάλλω, -ομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1428

Further reading

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  • σφάλλω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • σφάλλω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

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Verb

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σφάλλω (sfállo) (past έσφαλα)

  1. to make a mistake, err, blunder, lapse

Conjugation

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

See also

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