σάννας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Frisk and DELG, from the verb σαίνω (saínō, “to wag; flatter”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sán.naːs/ → /ˈsan.nas/ → /ˈsa.nas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sán.naːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsan.nas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsan.nas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsan.nas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.nas/

Noun

σᾰ́ννᾱς • (sánnās) m (genitive σᾰ́ννου); first declension

1. zany, fool, buffoon

Inflection

First declension of ὁ σᾰ́ννᾱς; τοῦ σᾰ́ννου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σᾰ́ννᾱς ho sánnās	τὼ σᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ sánnā	οἱ σᾰ́νναι hoi sánnai
Genitive	τοῦ σᾰ́ννου toû sánnou	τοῖν σᾰ́νναιν toîn sánnain	τῶν σᾰννῶν tôn sannôn
Dative	τῷ σᾰ́ννᾳ tôi sánnāi	τοῖν σᾰ́νναιν toîn sánnain	τοῖς σᾰ́νναις toîs sánnais
Accusative	τὸν σᾰ́ννᾱν tòn sánnān	τὼ σᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ sánnā	τοὺς σᾰ́ννᾱς toùs sánnās
Vocative	σᾰ́ννᾱ sánnā	σᾰ́ννᾱ sánnā	σᾰ́νναι sánnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σᾰ́ννορος (sánnoros)
• σᾰννῐ́ων (sanníōn)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: sanna

Further reading

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