σέσυφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, in view of the reduplication, and probably related to Σίσυφος (Sísuphos).

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.pʰos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.ɸos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.sy.fos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈse.si.fos/

Adjective

σέσυφος • (sésuphos)

Hesychius gives the definition as: πανοῦργος (panoûrgos, “knavish, villainous”).

Further reading

“σέσυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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
Hesychius' Lexicon: σ

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