σίγλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σίκλος (síklos)

Etymology

From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.ɡlos/ → /ˈsi.ɣlos/ → /ˈsi.ɣlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.ɡlos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɡlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɣlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɣlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɣlos/

Noun

σίγλος • (síglos) m (genitive σίγλου); second declension

1. shekel, an ancient unit of weight
2. shekel, a currency used in ancient Israel
3. earring

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῐ́γλος; τοῦ σῐ́γλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́γλος ho síglos	τὼ σῐ́γλω tṑ síglō	οἱ σῐ́γλοι hoi sígloi
Genitive	τοῦ σῐ́γλου toû síglou	τοῖν σῐ́γλοιν toîn sígloin	τῶν σῐ́γλων tôn síglōn
Dative	τῷ σῐ́γλῳ tôi síglōi	τοῖν σῐ́γλοιν toîn sígloin	τοῖς σῐ́γλοις toîs síglois
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́γλον tòn síglon	τὼ σῐ́γλω tṑ síglō	τοὺς σῐ́γλους toùs síglous
Vocative	σῐ́γλε sígle	σῐ́γλω síglō	σῐ́γλοι sígloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σιγλοφόρος (siglophóros)

Descendants

• → Latin: siclus (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Georgian: სიკლაჲ (siḳlay)

Further reading

• “σίγλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σίγλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σίγλος 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