σίττη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἵττα (hítta), σῐ́ττος (síttos)
Etymology
According to Beekes, of onomatopoeic origin but Furnée links the word with ψίττακος (psíttakos, “parrot”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sít.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsit.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsit.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsit.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ti/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῐ́ττη hē síttē |
τὼ σῐ́ττᾱ tṑ síttā |
αἱ σῐ́τται hai síttai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῐ́ττης tês síttēs |
τοῖν σῐ́τταιν toîn síttain |
τῶν σῐττῶν tôn sittôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῐ́ττῃ têi síttēi |
τοῖν σῐ́τταιν toîn síttain |
ταῖς σῐ́τταις taîs síttais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῐ́ττην tḕn síttēn |
τὼ σῐ́ττᾱ tṑ síttā |
τᾱ̀ς σῐ́ττᾱς tā̀s síttās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῐ́ττη síttē |
σῐ́ττᾱ síttā |
σῐ́τται síttai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Sitta
Further reading
- “σίττη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίττη 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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