σαμψήρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From an Iranian source common to Old Armenian սուսեր (suser, “sword”), Classical Syriac ܣܦܣܝܪܐ (sap̄sērāʾ, “sword”), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic ספסרא, ספסירא (sap̄sērāʾ, “sword”) and Persian شمشیر (šamšir, “sword”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /samp.sɛ̌ː.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sampˈse̝.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sampˈsi.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sampˈsi.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sampˈsi.ra/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σᾰμψήρᾱ hē sampsḗrā |
τὼ σᾰμψήρᾱ tṑ sampsḗrā |
αἱ σᾰμψῆραι hai sampsêrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σᾰμψήρᾱς tês sampsḗrās |
τοῖν σᾰμψήραιν toîn sampsḗrain |
τῶν σᾰμψηρῶν tôn sampsērôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σᾰμψήρᾳ têi sampsḗrāi |
τοῖν σᾰμψήραιν toîn sampsḗrain |
ταῖς σᾰμψήραις taîs sampsḗrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σᾰμψήρᾱν tḕn sampsḗrān |
τὼ σᾰμψήρᾱ tṑ sampsḗrā |
τᾱ̀ς σᾰμψήρᾱς tā̀s sampsḗrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σᾰμψήρᾱ sampsḗrā |
σᾰμψήρᾱ sampsḗrā |
σᾰμψῆραι sampsêrai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σαμψήρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαμψήρα 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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