Σφίγξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) (a Pre-Greek word) or from Egyptian
(šzp-ꜥnḫ, “living image”) or
(šzp, “image, statue, sphinx”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰíŋks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spʰiŋks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sɸiŋks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sfiŋks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sfiŋks/
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Σφῐ́γξ hē Sphínx |
τὼ Σφῐ́γγε tṑ Sphínge |
αἱ Σφῐ́γγες hai Sphínges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Σφῐγγός tês Sphingós |
τοῖν Σφῐγγοῖν toîn Sphingoîn |
τῶν Σφῐγγῶν tôn Sphingôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Σφῐγγῐ́ têi Sphingí |
τοῖν Σφῐγγοῖν toîn Sphingoîn |
ταῖς Σφῐγξῐ́ / Σφῐγξῐ́ν taîs Sphinxí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Σφῐ́γγᾰ tḕn Sphínga |
τὼ Σφῐ́γγε tṑ Sphínge |
τᾱ̀ς Σφῐ́γγᾰς tā̀s Sphíngas | ||||||||||
Vocative | Σφῐ́γξ Sphínx |
Σφῐ́γγε Sphínge |
Σφῐ́γγες Sphínges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Bulgarian: Сфинкс (Sfinks)
- Catalan: Esfinx
- Czech: Sfinga
- Danish: Sfinks
- Dutch: Sfinx
- English: Sphinx
- Estonian: Sphinx
- Finnish: Sfinksi
- French: Sphinx
- German: Sphinx
- Greek:
- Σφιγξ (Sfinx)
- Σφίγγα (Sfínga)
- Hebrew: ספינקס (Sfinqs)
- Hungarian: Szfinx
- Indonesian: Sphinx
- Italian: Sfinge
- Japanese: スフィンクス (Sufinkusu)
- Korean: 스핑크스 (seupingkeuseu)
- Latin: Sphinx
- Lithuanian: Sfinksas
- Manx: Sphinx
- Norwegian: Sfinks
- Ossetian: Сфинкс (Sfinks) (Sfinks)
- Polish: Sfinks
- Portuguese: Esfinge
- Romanian: Sfinx
- Russian: Сфинкс (Sfinks)
- Serbo-Croatian: Сфинга, Sfinga
- Spanish: Esfinge
- Swedish: Sfinx
- Thai: สฟิงซ์ (sà-fíng)
- Ukrainian: Сфінкс (Sfinks)
- Yiddish: ספֿינקס (sfinks)
References
- Σφίγξ 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 1,025
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