σίδη

See also: Σίδη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σίβδη (síbdē), ξίμβᾱ (xímbā), ῥίμβᾱ (rhímbā), σίβδᾱ (síbdā), σίδᾱ (sídā), σιδέᾱ (sidéā), σίλβᾱ (sílbā)

Etymology

According to Furnée, all the variations prove a Pre-Greek origin, after Witczak specifically borrowed from Western Anatolian. Also passed as far as Albanian shegë, to which the form κυσήγη (kusḗgē) once mentioned without contextualization is in any case ancestral. Linked to the reconstruction *sida "red", which has also been suggested as the root of σίδηρος (sídēros), "iron."

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sǐː.dɛː/ → /ˈsi.ði/ → /ˈsi.ði/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sǐː.dɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.de̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ði/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ði/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ði/

Noun

σίδη • (sídē) f (genitive σῑ́δης); first declension

1. pomegranate (tree and fruit)

   Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)

2. kind of waterplant growing near Orchomenus, water lily

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῑ́δη; τῆς σῑ́δης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῑ́δη hē sī́dē	τὼ σῑ́δᾱ tṑ sī́dā	αἱ σῖδαι hai sîdai
Genitive	τῆς σῑ́δης tês sī́dēs	τοῖν σῑ́δαιν toîn sī́dain	τῶν σῑδῶν tôn sīdôn
Dative	τῇ σῑ́δῃ têi sī́dēi	τοῖν σῑ́δαιν toîn sī́dain	ταῖς σῑ́δαις taîs sī́dais
Accusative	τὴν σῑ́δην tḕn sī́dēn	τὼ σῑ́δᾱ tṑ sī́dā	τᾱ̀ς σῑ́δᾱς tā̀s sī́dās
Vocative	σῑ́δη sī́dē	σῑ́δᾱ sī́dā	σῖδαι sîdai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• γλυκυσίδη (glukusídē)
• σίδειος (sídeios)
• σιδιοειδής (sidioeidḗs)
• σίδιον (sídion)
• σιδιωτόν (sidiōtón)
• σιδόεις (sidóeis)
• Σιδοῦς (Sidoûs)

 

Descendants

• Cappadocian Greek:

  Sinasos: σίτη (síti)

  Pharasa: σίδι (sídi)

• Pontic Greek: σίδη (sídi), σίλβᾰ (sílvᾰ)
• → Italian:

  Salentian: sída, síta, sèta

  Tarentian: sèta

  Old Barese: sede, seida

  Barese: sétə, saitə, sèitə

Further reading

• “σίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σίδη 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
• Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz, Zadka, Małgorzata (2014) “Ancient greek σίδη as a borrowing from a Pre-Greek substratum / On the Anatolian origin of Ancient Greek σίδη”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia, volume 19, numbers 1–2, pages 113–126 and 131–139