ψιλογραφέω
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom ψῑλός (psīlós, “[of the sounds /e/ and /y/] written with the single letters ⟨ε⟩ and ⟨υ⟩ [rather than the digraphs ⟨αι⟩ and ⟨οι⟩]”) + γρᾰ́φος (gráphos, “written character, letter”) + -έω (-éō, suffix forming verbs).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /psiː.lo.ɡra.pʰé.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /psi.lo.ɡraˈpʰe.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /psi.lo.ɣraˈɸe.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /psi.lo.ɣraˈfe.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /psi.lo.ɣraˈfe.o/
Verb
editψῑλογρᾰφέω • (psīlographéō) (Koine, Byzantine)
- (orthography) to write with a single vowel letter (not a digraph)
- c. 1150, John Tzetzes, Chiliades, book 5, lines 696–97:
- Τὰ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ εας ἐν μιᾷ τῇ συλλαβῇ πρὸ τέλους,
εἰς ἄλφα δὲ κλινόμενα πάντα μοι ψιλογράφει.- Tà d’ ek toû eas en miâi têi sullabêi prò télous,
eis álpha dè klinómena pánta moi psilográphei. - The [words] ending in εας with one syllable before the ending,
all declining in alpha, write them for me with a single letter.
- Tà d’ ek toû eas en miâi têi sullabêi prò télous,
- c. 1150, John Tzetzes, Chiliades, book 5, lines 696–97:
Inflection
edit Present: ψῑλογρᾰφέω, ψῑλογρᾰφέομαι (Uncontracted)
Further reading
edit- “ψῑλογρᾰφέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press