σεῖφα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Furnée, it is a shortened form of ψέφας (pséphas, “darkness, gloom”) and thus from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sêː.pʰa/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.pʰa/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɸa/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.fa/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.fa/

Noun

σεῖφα • (seîpha)

(hapax) Hesychius gives the definition as: σκοτία (skotía, “darkness, gloom”), as they say in Crete.

References

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