σφυρόν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Conventionally connected with Proto-Indo-European *sperH-, although Pre-Greek, according to Beekes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰy.rón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spʰyˈron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sɸyˈron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sfyˈron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sfiˈron/
Noun
σφῠρόν • (sphurón) n (genitive σφῠροῦ); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σφῠρόν tò sphurón |
τὼ σφῠρώ tṑ sphurṓ |
τᾰ̀ σφῠρᾰ́ tà sphurá | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σφῠροῦ toû sphuroû |
τοῖν σφῠροῖν toîn sphuroîn |
τῶν σφῠρῶν tôn sphurôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σφῠρῷ tôi sphurôi |
τοῖν σφῠροῖν toîn sphuroîn |
τοῖς σφῠροῖς toîs sphuroîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σφῠρόν tò sphurón |
τὼ σφῠρώ tṑ sphurṓ |
τᾰ̀ σφῠρᾰ́ tà sphurá | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σφῠρόν sphurón |
σφῠρώ sphurṓ |
σφῠρᾰ́ sphurá | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπισφύριος (episphúrios)
- εὔσφυρος (eúsphuros)
- καλλίσφυρος (kallísphuros)
- λευκόσφυρος (leukósphuros)
- ῥοδόσφυρος (rhodósphuros)
- σφυρόομαι (sphuróomai)
- σφυρωτήρ (sphurōtḗr)
- τανύσφυρος (tanúsphuros)
- χλιδανόσφυρος (khlidanósphuros)
Further reading
- “σφυρόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφυρόν 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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