σίτλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla (“bucket, pail”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

σίτλα • (sítla) f (genitive σίτλης); first declension

1. bucket, pail

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῐ́τλᾰ; τῆς σῐ́τλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐ́τλᾰ hē sítla	τὼ σῐ́τλᾱ tṑ sítlā	αἱ σῐ́τλαι hai sítlai
Genitive	τῆς σῐ́τλης tês sítlēs	τοῖν σῐ́τλαιν toîn sítlain	τῶν σῐτλῶν tôn sitlôn
Dative	τῇ σῐ́τλῃ têi sítlēi	τοῖν σῐ́τλαιν toîn sítlain	ταῖς σῐ́τλαις taîs sítlais
Accusative	τὴν σῐ́τλᾰν tḕn sítlan	τὼ σῐ́τλᾱ tṑ sítlā	τᾱ̀ς σῐ́τλᾱς tā̀s sítlās
Vocative	σῐ́τλᾰ sítla	σῐ́τλᾱ sítlā	σῐ́τλαι sítlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: سَطِل (saṭil), سَطْل (saṭl)
  • → Persian: سطل (satl)
• → Coptic:
• → Persian: ستل (satl)

Further reading

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