σῆραγξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formally similar to φάραγξ (pháranx, “ravine”). Sometimes connected with σέσηρα (sésēra, “to grin”), but this is semantically unprobable. It is rather a Pre-Greek word, in view of the suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̂ː.raŋks/ → /ˈsi.raŋks/ → /ˈsi.raŋks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sɛ̂ː.raŋks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse̝.raŋks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/

Noun

σῆραγξ • (sêranx) f (genitive σήρᾰγγος); third declension

1. cave hollowed out by water
2. (anatomy) pore or cavity of the body

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῆρᾰγξ; τῆς σήρᾰγγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῆρᾰγξ hē sêranx	τὼ σήρᾰγγε tṑ sḗrange	αἱ σήρᾰγγες hai sḗranges
Genitive	τῆς σήρᾰγγος tês sḗrangos	τοῖν σηρᾰ́γγοιν toîn sērángoin	τῶν σηρᾰ́γγων tôn sērángōn
Dative	τῇ σήρᾰγγῐ têi sḗrangi	τοῖν σηρᾰ́γγοιν toîn sērángoin	ταῖς σήρᾰγξῐ / σήρᾰγξῐν taîs sḗranxi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σήρᾰγγᾰ tḕn sḗranga	τὼ σήρᾰγγε tṑ sḗrange	τᾱ̀ς σήρᾰγγᾰς tā̀s sḗrangas
Vocative	σῆρᾰγξ sêranx	σήρᾰγγε sḗrange	σήρᾰγγες sḗranges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σηράγγιον (sērángion)
• σηραγγόομαι (sērangóomai)
• σηραγγώδης (sērangṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: σήραγγα (síranga)

Further reading

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