συκάμινος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “sycamore”), with assimilation to σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syː.ká.miː.nos/ → /syˈka.mi.nos/ → /siˈka.mi.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syː.ká.miː.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syˈka.mi.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syˈka.mi.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syˈka.mi.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈka.mi.nos/

Noun

σῡκᾰ́μῑνος • (sūkámīnos) f or m (genitive σῡκᾰμῑ́νου); second declension

1. black mulberry (Morus nigra)
2. white mulberry (Morus alba)

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ σῡκᾰ́μῑνος; τῆς σῡκᾰμῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῡκᾰ́μῑνος hē sūkámīnos	τὼ σῡκᾰμῑ́νω tṑ sūkamī́nō	αἱ σῡκᾰ́μῑνοι hai sūkámīnoi
Genitive	τῆς σῡκᾰμῑ́νου tês sūkamī́nou	τοῖν σῡκᾰμῑ́νοιν toîn sūkamī́noin	τῶν σῡκᾰμῑ́νων tôn sūkamī́nōn
Dative	τῇ σῡκᾰμῑ́νῳ têi sūkamī́nōi	τοῖν σῡκᾰμῑ́νοιν toîn sūkamī́noin	ταῖς σῡκᾰμῑ́νοις taîs sūkamī́nois
Accusative	τὴν σῡκᾰ́μῑνον tḕn sūkámīnon	τὼ σῡκᾰμῑ́νω tṑ sūkamī́nō	τᾱ̀ς σῡκᾰμῑ́νους tā̀s sūkamī́nous
Vocative	σῡκᾰ́μῑνε sūkámīne	σῡκᾰμῑ́νω sūkamī́nō	σῡκᾰ́μῑνοι sūkámīnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• συκαμινέα (sukaminéa)
• συκαμινεών (sukamineṓn)
• συκαμίνινος (sukamíninos)
• συκαμινοακάνθινος (sukaminoakánthinos)
• συκάμινον (sukáminon)
• συκαμινώδης (sukaminṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: sȳcamīnus

Further reading

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