σάμβαλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

See σάνδαλον (sándalon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sám.ba.lon/ → /ˈsam.ba.lon/ → /ˈsam.ba.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sám.ba.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsam.ba.lon/

Noun

σάμβᾰλον • (sámbalon) n (genitive σαμβάλου); second declension

1. Aeolic form of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”)
   • 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 98:

     θυρώρῳ πόδες ἐπτορόγυιοι,
     τὰ δὲ σάμβαλα πεμπεβόηα,
     πίσσυγγοι δὲ δέκ' ἐξεπόναισαν.

     thurṓrōi pódes eptoróguioi,
     tà dè sámbala pempebóēa,
     píssungoi dè dék' exepónaisan.

     The porter's feet are seven fathoms long,
     and his sandals are made of five ox-hides
     - ten cobblers laboured on them.

Derived terms

• σαμβαλίσκον (sambalískon)
• σαμβαλούχη (sambaloúkhē)

 

Further reading

• “σάμβαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σάμβαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σάμβαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σάμβαλον”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “σάμβαλον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011