σαύρα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Beekes claims a Pre-Greek origin, due to the semantic category of lizards being "local substrate" and not being conceptualized among the Proto-Indo-Europeans.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sǎu̯.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.βra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.vra/
Noun
[edit]σαύρᾱ • (saúrā) f (genitive σαύρᾱς); first declension
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σαύρᾱ hē saúrā |
τὼ σαύρᾱ tṑ saúrā |
αἱ σαῦραι hai saûrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σαύρᾱς tês saúrās |
τοῖν σαύραιν toîn saúrain |
τῶν σαυρῶν tôn saurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σαύρᾳ têi saúrāi |
τοῖν σαύραιν toîn saúrain |
ταῖς σαύραις taîs saúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σαύρᾱν tḕn saúrān |
τὼ σαύρᾱ tṑ saúrā |
τᾱ̀ς σαύρᾱς tā̀s saúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σαύρᾱ saúrā |
σαύρᾱ saúrā |
σαῦραι saûrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- σαυρῑ́της (saurī́tēs)
- σαυροκτόνος (sauroktónos)
- σαυρωτήρ (saurōtḗr)
Related terms
[edit]- σαῦρος (saûros)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σαύρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1313
Further reading
[edit]- “σαύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
[edit]Noun
[edit]σαύρα • (sávra) f (plural σαύρες)
Declension
[edit]Declension of σαύρα
Further reading
[edit]σαύρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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