σίττη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἵττα (hítta)
• σίττος (síttos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of onomatopoeic origin but Furnée links the word with ψίττακος (psíttakos, “parrot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sít.tɛː/ → /ˈsit.ti/ → /ˈsi.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sít.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ti/

Noun

σίττη • (síttē) f (genitive σίττης); first declension

1. nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σίττη; τῆς σίττης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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