σῖτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeHi-to-, the same root of Proto-Slavic *žìto (“corn”) and Proto-Celtic *bētom. It has also been compared to Basque zitu (“harvest”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sîː.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tos/
Noun
σῖτος • (sîtos) m (genitive σῑ́του); second declension
- grain, corn (in the British sense, encompassing wheat and barley, the cereal grains used by the ancient Greeks)
- grains and lentils
- bread (as opposed to meat)
- food (as opposed to drink)
Usage notes
This noun is neuter in the plural.
Inflection
Singular (masculine):
Plural (neuter):
Synonyms
- (bread): ἄρτος (ártos)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “σῖτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σῖτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σῖτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4621 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- aliment idem, page 22.
- bread idem, page 94.
- cereals idem, page 122.
- commissariat idem, page 148.
- corn idem, page 174.
- eatables idem, page 260.
- fare idem, page 307.
- food idem, page 333.
- forage idem, page 334.
- fruit idem, page 347.
- grain idem, page 369.
- grist idem, page 374.
- meal idem, page 519.
- meat idem, page 521.
- produce idem, page 644.
- provender idem, page 654.
- provision idem, page 654.
- refection idem, page 684.
- refreshment idem, page 685.
- supplies idem, page 840.
- sustenance idem, page 846.
- viands idem, page 950.
- victuals idem, page 951.
- 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek irregular nouns
- grc:Grains