σίσαρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the etymology is still unclear. The word recalls ἄσαρον (ásaron, “hazelwort”) and ἡδύσαρον (hēdúsaron, “axe-weed”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.sa.ron/ → /ˈsi.sa.ron/ → /ˈsi.sa.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.sa.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sa.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sa.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sa.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.sa.ron/

Noun

σίσᾰρον • (sísaron) n (genitive σῐσάρου); second declension

1. parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σῐ́σᾰρον; τοῦ σῐσᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῐ́σᾰρον tò sísaron	τὼ σῐσᾰ́ρω tṑ sisárō	τᾰ̀ σῐ́σᾰρᾰ tà sísara
Genitive	τοῦ σῐσᾰ́ρου toû sisárou	τοῖν σῐσᾰ́ροιν toîn sisároin	τῶν σῐσᾰ́ρων tôn sisárōn
Dative	τῷ σῐσᾰ́ρῳ tôi sisárōi	τοῖν σῐσᾰ́ροιν toîn sisároin	τοῖς σῐσᾰ́ροις toîs sisárois
Accusative	τὸ σῐ́σᾰρον tò sísaron	τὼ σῐσᾰ́ρω tṑ sisárō	τᾰ̀ σῐ́σᾰρᾰ tà sísara
Vocative	σῐ́σᾰρον sísaron	σῐσᾰ́ρω sisárō	σῐ́σᾰρᾰ sísara
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σισάριον (sisárion)

Descendants

• Latin: siser

Further reading

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