σίραμφος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Furnée connects the word with σήραμβος (sḗrambos, “kind of beetle”). However, Beekes finds this connection semantically unlikely. Compare also ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “beak”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ram.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ram.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ram.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ram.fos/
Noun[edit]
σίραμφος • (síramphos)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout; beak”).
Further reading[edit]
- “σίραμφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σήραμβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1324
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ