σαλαμάνδρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Given its non-Indo-European structure, this word may be Pre-Greek. Confront also σαύρα (saúra) and Persian سمندر (samandar, “salamander”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sa.la.mán.dra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
Noun
σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ • (salamándra) f (genitive σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ hē salamándra |
τὼ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱ tṑ salamándrā |
αἱ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραι hai salamándrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς tês salamándrās |
τοῖν σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραιν toîn salamándrain |
τῶν σᾰλᾰμᾰνδρῶν tôn salamandrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾳ têi salamándrāi |
τοῖν σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραιν toîn salamándrain |
ταῖς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραις taîs salamándrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰν tḕn salamándran |
τὼ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱ tṑ salamándrā |
τᾱ̀ς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς tā̀s salamándrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ salamándra |
σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱ salamándrā |
σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραι salamándrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρειος (salamándreios)
Descendants
- → Latin: salamandra
- → English: salamander
- → Italian: salamandra
- → Translingual: Salamandra
Further reading
- “σαλαμάνδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαλαμάνδρα 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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