Σίσυφος

Ancient Greek

Of unknown origin. Possibilities include:

A reduplicated form of σοφός (sophós, “wise”).
A derivative of σίσυς (sísus, “a goat's skin”); see σισύρα (sisúra, “cloak of goat's hair”).[1]
A Pre-Greek loan.[2]

Σῑ́σῠφος • (Sī́suphos) m (genitive Σῑσῠ́φου); second declension

Sisyphus
Τὸν Θάνατον ὁ Σίσυφος ἔδησεν. ― Tòn Thánaton ho Sísuphos édēsen. ― Death was bound by Sisyphus.

Second declension of ὁ Σῑ́σῠφος; τοῦ Σῑσῠ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Σῑ́σῠφος ho Sī́suphos
Genitive	τοῦ Σῑσῠ́φου toû Sīsúphou
Dative	τῷ Σῑσῠ́φῳ tôi Sīsúphōi
Accusative	τὸν Σῑ́σῠφον tòn Sī́suphon
Vocative	Σῑ́σῠφε Sī́suphe
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
RSP Beekes, Greek etymological dictionary

“Σίσυφος”, 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.
- sisyphus idem, page 779.
Σίσυφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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