σφέλας
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Furnée concludes from the possible connection with σφαλλός (sphallós, “round block of wood”) that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰé.las/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspʰe.las/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsɸe.las/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsfe.las/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsfe.las/
Noun edit
σφέλᾰς • (sphélas) n (genitive σφέλᾰος); third declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σφέλᾰς tò sphélas |
τὼ σφέλᾰε tṑ sphélae |
τᾰ̀ σφέλᾱ tà sphélā | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σφέλᾰος toû sphélaos |
τοῖν σφελᾰ́οιν toîn spheláoin |
τῶν σφελᾰ́ων tôn spheláōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σφέλᾰῐ̈ tôi sphélaï |
τοῖν σφελᾰ́οιν toîn spheláoin |
τοῖς σφέλᾰσῐ / σφέλᾰσῐν toîs sphélasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σφέλᾰς tò sphélas |
τὼ σφέλᾰε tṑ sphélae |
τᾰ̀ σφέλᾱ tà sphélā | ||||||||||
Vocative | σφέλᾰς sphélas |
σφέλᾰε sphélae |
σφέλᾱ sphélā | ||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
- ἐπισφελίτης (episphelítēs)
- σφελίσκον (sphelískon)
Further reading edit
- “σφέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σφέλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σφέλας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σφέλας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σφέλας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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