σῆραγξ
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFormally similar to φάραγξ (pháranx, “ravine”). Sometimes connected with σέσηρα (sésēra, “to grin”), but this is semantically unprobable. It is rather a Pre-Greek word, in view of the suffix.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sɛ̂ː.raŋks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈse̝.raŋks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
Noun
editσῆραγξ • (sêranx) f (genitive σήρᾰγγος); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σῆρᾰγξ hē sêranx |
τὼ σήρᾰγγε tṑ sḗrange |
αἱ σήρᾰγγες hai sḗranges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σήρᾰγγος tês sḗrangos |
τοῖν σηρᾰ́γγοιν toîn sērángoin |
τῶν σηρᾰ́γγων tôn sērángōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σήρᾰγγῐ têi sḗrangi |
τοῖν σηρᾰ́γγοιν toîn sērángoin |
ταῖς σήρᾰγξῐ / σήρᾰγξῐν taîs sḗranxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σήρᾰγγᾰ tḕn sḗranga |
τὼ σήρᾰγγε tṑ sḗrange |
τᾱ̀ς σήρᾰγγᾰς tā̀s sḗrangas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῆρᾰγξ sêranx |
σήρᾰγγε sḗrange |
σήρᾰγγες sḗranges | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- σηράγγιον (sērángion)
- σηραγγόομαι (sērangóomai)
- σηραγγώδης (sērangṓdēs)
Descendants
edit- Greek: σήραγγα (síranga)
Further reading
edit- “σῆραγξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σῆραγξ 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
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- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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