σαρωνίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Strömberg, from σαρῶνες (sarônes, “net of hunters”), which remains unconvincing in spite of the parallels adduced. The word has been connected with σορωνίς (sorōnís, “old silver fir”); since the variation α/ο cannot be explained, it must be assumed a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

σᾰρωνῐ́ς • (sarōnís) f (genitive σᾰρωνῐ́δος); third declension

1. old hollow oak

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σᾰρωνῐ́ς; τῆς σᾰρωνῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σᾰρωνῐ́ς hē sarōnís	τὼ σᾰρωνῐ́δε tṑ sarōníde	αἱ σᾰρωνῐ́δες hai sarōnídes
Genitive	τῆς σᾰρωνῐ́δος tês sarōnídos	τοῖν σᾰρωνῐ́δοιν toîn sarōnídoin	τῶν σᾰρωνῐ́δων tôn sarōnídōn
Dative	τῇ σᾰρωνῐ́δῐ têi sarōnídi	τοῖν σᾰρωνῐ́δοιν toîn sarōnídoin	ταῖς σᾰρωνῐ́σῐ / σᾰρωνῐ́σῐν taîs sarōnísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σᾰρωνῐ́δᾰ tḕn sarōnída	τὼ σᾰρωνῐ́δε tṑ sarōníde	τᾱ̀ς σᾰρωνῐ́δᾰς tā̀s sarōnídas
Vocative	σᾰρωνῐ́ς sarōnís	σᾰρωνῐ́δε sarōníde	σᾰρωνῐ́δες sarōnídes
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.

Descendants

• → Portuguese: sarônide/sarónide

Further reading

• “σαρωνίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σαρωνίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σαρωνίς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1310