σανίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The formation is common to other technical terms like δοκίς (dokís, “beam”), ἀρίς (arís, “bow-drill”) and σελίς (selís, “crossbeam”) but the origin is uncertain. According to Beekes, the connection with σαίνω (saínō, “to fawn”) should be rejected for semantic reasons.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sa.nís/ → /saˈnis/ → /saˈnis/

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

Noun

σᾰνίς • (sanís) f (genitive σᾰνίδος); third declension

1. board, plank, timber
   1. (in the plural) folding doors
   2. wooden platform, scaffold or stage
   3. ship's deck
   4. bench, seat
   5. lid of box
   6. (in the plural) wooden tablets for writing on
   7. plank to which offenders were bound or nailed

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σᾰνῐ́ς; τῆς σᾰνῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σᾰνῐ́ς hē sanís	τὼ σᾰνῐ́δε tṑ saníde	αἱ σᾰνῐ́δες hai sanídes
Genitive	τῆς σᾰνῐ́δος tês sanídos	τοῖν σᾰνῐ́δοιν toîn sanídoin	τῶν σᾰνῐ́δων tôn sanídōn
Dative	τῇ σᾰνῐ́δῐ têi sanídi	τοῖν σᾰνῐ́δοιν toîn sanídoin	ταῖς σᾰνῐ́σῐ / σᾰνῐ́σῐν taîs sanísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σᾰνῐ́δᾰ tḕn sanída	τὼ σᾰνῐ́δε tṑ saníde	τᾱ̀ς σᾰνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s sanídas
Vocative	σᾰνῐ́ς sanís	σᾰνῐ́δε saníde	σᾰνῐ́δες sanídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• σανίδιον (sanídion)
• σανιδόω (sanidóō)
• σανιδώδης (sanidṓdēs)
• σανίδωμα (sanídōma)
• σανιδωτός (sanidōtós)
• σανίσκη (sanískē)

 

Descendants

• Greek: σανίδα (sanída)
• → Medieval Latin: sandones

Further reading

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