σύρφος
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýr.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsyr.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsir.fos/
Noun
σῠ́ρφος • (sŭ́rphos) m (genitive σῠ́ρφου); second declension
- alternative form of σέρφος (sérphos, “gnat; winged ant”)
- [5th c. CE, Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:
- σύρφος· θηρίδιον μικρόν, ὁποῖον ἐμπίς
- súrphos; thērídion mikrón, hopoîon empís
- súrphos: a small animal, like a gnat]
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σῠ́ρφος ho sŭ́rphos |
τὼ σῠ́ρφω tṑ sŭ́rphō |
οἱ σῠ́ρφοι hoi sŭ́rphoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σῠ́ρφου toû sŭ́rphou |
τοῖν σῠ́ρφοιν toîn sŭ́rphoin |
τῶν σῠ́ρφων tôn sŭ́rphōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σῠ́ρφῳ tōî sŭ́rphōi |
τοῖν σῠ́ρφοιν toîn sŭ́rphoin |
τοῖς σῠ́ρφοις toîs sŭ́rphois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σῠ́ρφον tòn sŭ́rphon |
τὼ σῠ́ρφω tṑ sŭ́rphō |
τοὺς σῠ́ρφους toùs sŭ́rphous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠ́ρφε sŭ́rphe |
σῠ́ρφω sŭ́rphō |
σῠ́ρφοι sŭ́rphoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σύρφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σύρφος in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- σύρφος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011