Σαπφώ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • Ψάπφω (Psápphō) – Aeolic
  • Σάφφω (Sáphphō)

Etymology

According to Beekes, maybe from Pre-Greek due to the presence of the cluster "-πφ-".

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Σαπφώ • (Sapphṓ) f (genitive Σαπφοῦς); third declension

  1. Sappho

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σαπφώ; τῆς Σαπφοῦς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Σαπφώ
hē Sapphṓ
Genitive τῆς Σαπφοῦς
tês Sapphoûs
Dative τῇ Σαπφοῖ
têi Sapphoî
Accusative τὴν Σαπφώ
tḕn Sapphṓ
Vocative Σαπφοῖ
Sapphoî
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Arabic: صافو‎
  • Asturian: Safo
  • Basque: Safo
  • Breton: Sapfo
  • Bulgarian: Сафо (Safo)
  • Catalan: Safo
  • Czech: Sapfó
  • Danish: Sapfo
  • Dutch: Sappho
  • English: Sappho
  • Estonian: Sappho
  • Finnish: Sapfo
  • French: Sappho
  • Galician: Safo
  • German: Sappho
  • Low German: Sappho
  • Greek: Σαπφώ (Sapfó)
  • Hebrew: סאפפו‎
  • Hungarian: Szapphó
  • Icelandic: Saffó
  • Italian: Saffo
  • Japanese: サッポー (Sappō)
  • Latin: Sappho
  • Latvian: Sapfo
  • Lithuanian: Sapfo
  • Mongolian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
  • Norwegian: Sapfo
  • Piedmontese: Safo
  • Polish: Safona
  • Portuguese: Safo
  • Romanian: Sappho
  • Russian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
  • Scottish Gaelic: Sappho
  • Serbo-Croatian: Сапфа/Sapfa, Sappho
  • Slovak: Sapfó
  • Slovene: Sapfo
  • Spanish: Safo
  • Swedish: Sapfo
  • Turkish: Sappho
  • Ukrainian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
  • Vietnamese: Sappho

References
  • Σαπφώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
  • 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
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