σιδηρῖτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σίδηρος (sídēros, “iron”) +‎ -ῖτις (-îtis), feminine form of σιδηρίτης (sidērítēs, “made of iron”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.dɛː.rîː.tis/ → /si.ðiˈri.tis/ → /si.ðiˈri.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.dɛː.rîː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.de̝ˈri.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.ðiˈri.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.ðiˈri.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.ðiˈri.tis/

Noun

σῐδηρῖτῐς • (sidērîtis) f (genitive σῐδηρῑ́τῐδος); third declension

1. ironwort (Sideritis romana)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῐδηρῖτῐς; τῆς σῐδηρῑ́τῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐδηρῖτῐς hē sidērîtis	τὼ σῐδηρῑ́τῐδε tṑ sidērī́tide	αἱ σῐδηρῑ́τῐδες hai sidērī́tides
Genitive	τῆς σῐδηρῑ́τῐδος tês sidērī́tidos	τοῖν σῐδηρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn sidērītídoin	τῶν σῐδηρῑτῐ́δων tôn sidērītídōn
Dative	τῇ σῐδηρῑ́τῐδῐ têi sidērī́tidi	τοῖν σῐδηρῑτῐ́δοιν toîn sidērītídoin	ταῖς σῐδηρῑ́τῐσῐ / σῐδηρῑ́τῐσῐν taîs sidērī́tisi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῐδηρῑ́τῐδᾰ tḕn sidērī́tida	τὼ σῐδηρῑ́τῐδε tṑ sidērī́tide	τᾱ̀ς σῐδηρῑ́τῐδᾰς tā̀s sidērī́tidas
Vocative	σῐδηρῖτῐς sidērîtis	σῐδηρῑ́τῐδε sidērī́tide	σῐδηρῑ́τῐδες sidērī́tides
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

• → Latin: sidērītis

Further reading

• “σιδηρῖτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σιδηρῖτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette