Σαπφώ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ψάπφω (Psápphō) — Aeolic
• Σάφφω (Sáphphō)

Etymology

According to Beekes, maybe from due to the presence of the cluster "-πφ-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sapʰ.pʰɔ̌ː/ → /sapˈɸo/ → /sapˈfo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sapʰ.pʰɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sapˈpʰo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sapˈɸo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sapˈfo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sapˈfo/

Proper noun

Σαπφώ • (Sapphṓ) f (genitive Σαπφοῦς); third declension

1. Sappho

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Σαπφώ; τῆς Σαπφοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σαπφώ hē Sapphṓ
Genitive	τῆς Σαπφοῦς tês Sapphoûs
Dative	τῇ Σαπφοῖ têi Sapphoî
Accusative	τὴν Σαπφώ tḕn Sapphṓ
Vocative	Σαπφοῖ Sapphoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Arabic: صافو
• Asturian: Safo
• Basque: Safo
• Breton: Sapfo
• Bulgarian: Сафо (Safo)
• Catalan: Safo
• Czech: Sapfó
• Danish: Sapfo
• Dutch: Sappho
• English: Sappho
• Estonian: Sappho
• Finnish: Sapfo
• French: Sappho
• Galician: Safo
• German: Sappho
• Low German: Sappho
• Greek: Σαπφώ (Sapfó)
• Hebrew: סאפפו
• Hungarian: Szapphó
• Icelandic: Saffó
• Italian: Saffo
• Japanese: サッポー (Sappō)
• Latin: Sappho
• Latvian: Sapfo
• Lithuanian: Sapfo
• Mongolian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
• Norwegian: Sapfo
• Piedmontese: Safo
• Polish: Safona
• Portuguese: Safo
• Romanian: Sappho
• Russian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
• Scottish Gaelic: Sappho
• Serbo-Croatian: Сапфа/Sapfa, Sappho
• Slovak: Sapfó
• Slovene: Sapfo
• Spanish: Safo
• Swedish: Sapfo
• Turkish: Sappho
• Ukrainian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
• Vietnamese: Sappho

References

• “Σαπφώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
• 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