ἀσύφη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown loanword, but probably of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.sý.pʰɛː/ → /aˈsy.ɸi/ → /aˈsi.fi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.sý.pʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈsy.pʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈsy.ɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈsy.fi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈsi.fi/

Noun

ἀσῠ́φη • (asúphē) f (genitive ἀσῠ́φης); first declension

1. kind of cassia mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀσῠ́φη; τῆς ἀσῠ́φης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀσῠ́φη hē asúphē	τὼ ἀσῠ́φᾱ tṑ asúphā	αἱ ἀσῠ́φαι hai asúphai
Genitive	τῆς ἀσῠ́φης tês asúphēs	τοῖν ἀσῠ́φαιν toîn asúphain	τῶν ἀσῠφῶν tôn asuphôn
Dative	τῇ ἀσῠ́φῃ têi asúphēi	τοῖν ἀσῠ́φαιν toîn asúphain	ταῖς ἀσῠ́φαις taîs asúphais
Accusative	τὴν ἀσῠ́φην tḕn asúphēn	τὼ ἀσῠ́φᾱ tṑ asúphā	τᾱ̀ς ἀσῠ́φᾱς tā̀s asúphās
Vocative	ἀσῠ́φη asúphē	ἀσῠ́φᾱ asúphā	ἀσῠ́φαι asúphai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀσύφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀσύφη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσύφη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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