συγχίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from a substrate language of Asia Minor, possibly Phrygian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syŋ.kʰís/ → /syɲˈçis/ → /siɲˈçis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syŋ.kʰís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syŋˈkʰis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syɲˈçis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syɲˈçis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siɲˈçis/

Noun

συγχίς • (sunkhís) f (genitive συγχίδος); third declension

1. A kind of shoe or sock

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ συγχῐ́ς; τῆς συγχῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ συγχῐ́ς hē sunkhís	τὼ συγχῐ́δε tṑ sunkhíde	αἱ συγχῐ́δες hai sunkhídes
Genitive	τῆς συγχῐ́δος tês sunkhídos	τοῖν συγχῐ́δοιν toîn sunkhídoin	τῶν συγχῐ́δων tôn sunkhídōn
Dative	τῇ συγχῐ́δῐ têi sunkhídi	τοῖν συγχῐ́δοιν toîn sunkhídoin	ταῖς συγχῐ́σῐ / συγχῐ́σῐν taîs sunkhísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν συγχῐ́δᾰ tḕn sunkhída	τὼ συγχῐ́δε tṑ sunkhíde	τᾱ̀ς συγχῐ́δᾰς tā̀s sunkhídas
Vocative	συγχῐ́ς sunkhís	συγχῐ́δε sunkhíde	συγχῐ́δες sunkhídes
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.

Synonyms

• σύκχος (súkkhos)

Further reading

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