σφάκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Furnée, of Pre-Greek origin and related to σφάγνος (sphágnos, “kind of bush”) and φάσκον (pháskon, “moss”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰá.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈspʰa.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsɸa.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsfa.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsfa.kos/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σφᾰ́κος ho sphákos |
τὼ σφᾰ́κω tṑ sphákō |
οἱ σφᾰ́κοι hoi sphákoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σφᾰ́κου toû sphákou |
τοῖν σφᾰ́κοιν toîn sphákoin |
τῶν σφᾰ́κων tôn sphákōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σφᾰ́κῳ tôi sphákōi |
τοῖν σφᾰ́κοιν toîn sphákoin |
τοῖς σφᾰ́κοις toîs sphákois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σφᾰ́κον tòn sphákon |
τὼ σφᾰ́κω tṑ sphákō |
τοὺς σφᾰ́κους toùs sphákous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σφᾰ́κε spháke |
σφᾰ́κω sphákō |
σφᾰ́κοι sphákoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐλελῐ́σφᾰκος (elelísphakos)
- σφᾰκώδης (sphakṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: sphacos
Further reading
- “σφάκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφάκος 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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