σανδάλιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

σάνδαλον (sándalon) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive), of uncertain origin, possibly loaned from Parthian, Persian, or another substrate of Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /san.dá.li.on/ → /sanˈda.li.on/ → /sanˈda.li.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /san.dá.li.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sanˈda.li.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sanˈda.li.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sanˈda.li.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sanˈda.li.on/

Noun

σανδάλιον • (sandálion) n (genitive σανδαλίου); second declension

1. a light strap-shoe, sandal
2. a kind of vessel in the Byzantine fleet, sandal

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σανδάλιον; τοῦ σανδαλίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σανδάλιον tò sandálion	τὼ σανδαλίω tṑ sandalíō	τᾰ̀ σανδάλιᾰ tà sandália
Genitive	τοῦ σανδαλίου toû sandalíou	τοῖν σανδαλίοιν toîn sandalíoin	τῶν σανδαλίων tôn sandalíōn
Dative	τῷ σανδαλίῳ tôi sandalíōi	τοῖν σανδαλίοιν toîn sandalíoin	τοῖς σανδαλίοις toîs sandalíois
Accusative	τὸ σανδάλιον tò sandálion	τὼ σανδαλίω tṑ sandalíō	τᾰ̀ σανδάλιᾰ tà sandália
Vocative	σανδάλιον sandálion	σανδαλίω sandalíō	σανδάλιᾰ sandália
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: صَنْدَل (ṣandal)
• → Latin: sandalium

References

• “σανδάλιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σανδάλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Bramoullé, David (2019) Les Fatimides et la mer (909–1171) (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts; 165)‎^[1] (in French), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 295
• G4547 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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