σίσυρνα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to σισύρα (sisúra) and σίσυς (sísus). According to Furnée, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.syr.na/ → /ˈsi.syr.na/ → /ˈsi.sir.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.syr.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.syr.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.syr.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.syr.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sir.na/

Noun

σῐ́συρνᾰ • (sísurna) f (genitive σῐσύρνης); first declension

1. garment of skin, different from σισύρα (sisúra) which was made of goat's hair

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῐ́συρνᾰ; τῆς σῐσύρνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐ́συρνᾰ hē sísurna	τὼ σῐσύρνᾱ tṑ sisúrnā	αἱ σῐ́συρναι hai sísurnai
Genitive	τῆς σῐσύρνης tês sisúrnēs	τοῖν σῐσύρναιν toîn sisúrnain	τῶν σῐσυρνῶν tôn sisurnôn
Dative	τῇ σῐσύρνῃ têi sisúrnēi	τοῖν σῐσύρναιν toîn sisúrnain	ταῖς σῐσύρναις taîs sisúrnais
Accusative	τὴν σῐ́συρνᾰν tḕn sísurnan	τὼ σῐσύρνᾱ tṑ sisúrnā	τᾱ̀ς σῐσύρνᾱς tā̀s sisúrnās
Vocative	σῐ́συρνᾰ sísurna	σῐσύρνᾱ sisúrnā	σῐ́συρναι sísurnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σισύρνιον (sisúrnion)
• σισυρνοδύτης (sisurnodútēs)
• σισυρνοφόρος (sisurnophóros)
• σισυρνώδης (sisurnṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “σίσυρνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίσυρνα 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