σίττη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
According to Beekes, of onomatopoeic origin but Furnée links the word with ψίττακος (psíttakos, “parrot”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sít.tɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsit.te̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsit.ti/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsit.ti/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ti/
Noun
σίττη • (síttē) f (genitive σίττης); first declension
- nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σίττη hē síttē |
τὼ σίττᾱ tṑ síttā |
αἱ σίτται hai síttai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σίττης tês síttēs |
τοῖν σίτταιν toîn síttain |
τῶν σιττῶν tôn sittôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σίττῃ têi síttēi |
τοῖν σίτταιν toîn síttain |
ταῖς σίτταις taîs síttais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σίττην tḕn síttēn |
τὼ σίττᾱ tṑ síttā |
τᾱ̀ς σίττᾱς tā̀s síttās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σίττη síttē |
σίττᾱ síttā |
σίτται síttai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Translingual: Sitta
References
- “σίττη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίττη 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Perching birds
- Ancient Greek onomatopoeias