Σελινοῦς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Contracted from *Σελῑνό(ϝ)εις, from σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”) +‎ -εις (-eis, “-ful”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /se.liː.nûːs/ → /se.liˈnus/ → /se.liˈnus/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /se.liː.nûːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /se.liˈnus/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /se.liˈnus/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /se.liˈnus/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /se.liˈnus/

Proper noun

Σελῑνοῦς • (Selīnoûs) m (genitive Σελῑνοῦντος); third declension

1. Selinus; Selinunte, Sicily, Italy
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.4.2

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Σελῑνοῦς; τοῦ Σελῑνοῦντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Σελῑνοῦς ho Selīnoûs
Genitive	τοῦ Σελῑνοῦντος toû Selīnoûntos
Dative	τῷ Σελῑνοῦντῐ tôi Selīnoûnti
Accusative	τὸν Σελῑνοῦντᾰ tòn Selīnoûnta
Vocative	Σελῑνοῦν Selīnoûn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σελινούντιος (Selinoúntios)

Descendants

• Catalan: Selinunt
• French: Sélinonte
• Greek: Σελινούς (Selinoús); Σελινούντας (Selinoúntas)
• Italian: Selinunte
• Latin: Selinus
• Sicilian: Silinunti
• Spanish: Selinunte

References

• “Σελινοῦς”, 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 1,025