σίφων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A technical term, with a formation similar to ἄμβων (ámbōn) and δόλων (dólōn). Usually connected to Latin tībia (“shinbone; pipe, flute”), both of uncertain origin. Possibly a non-Indo-European loan source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sǐː.pʰɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.pʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɸon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.fon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.fon/
Noun
σῑ́φων • (sī́phōn) m (genitive σῑ́φωνος); third declension
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σῑ́φων ho sī́phōn |
τὼ σῑ́φωνε tṑ sī́phōne |
οἱ σῑ́φωνες hoi sī́phōnes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σῑ́φωνος toû sī́phōnos |
τοῖν σῑφώνοιν toîn sīphṓnoin |
τῶν σῑφώνων tôn sīphṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σῑ́φωνῐ tôi sī́phōni |
τοῖν σῑφώνοιν toîn sīphṓnoin |
τοῖς σῑ́φωσῐ / σῑ́φωσῐν toîs sī́phōsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σῑ́φωνᾰ tòn sī́phōna |
τὼ σῑ́φωνε tṑ sī́phōne |
τοὺς σῑ́φωνᾰς toùs sī́phōnas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῑ́φων sī́phōn |
σῑ́φωνε sī́phōne |
σῑ́φωνες sī́phōnes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σιφωνίζω (siphōnízō)
- σιφώνιον (siphṓnion)
- σιφωνολογία (siphōnología)
Further reading
- σίφων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίφων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σίφων 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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