συκαλίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• συκαλλίς (sukallís), συκαλλός (sukallós)

Etymology

From σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”), with a suffix found in other bird names, like ὀρταλίς (ortalís, “hen, fowl”) and πυραλίς (puralís, “kind of bird”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syː.ka.lís/ → /sy.kaˈlis/ → /si.kaˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syː.ka.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sy.kaˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sy.kaˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sy.kaˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈlis/

Noun

σῡκᾰλῐ́ς • (sūkalís) f (genitive σῡκᾰλῐ́δος); third declension

1. beccafico (Sylvia hortensis)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῡκᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς σῡκᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῡκᾰλῐ́ς hē sūkalís	τὼ σῡκᾰλῐ́δε tṑ sūkalíde	αἱ σῡκᾰλῐ́δες hai sūkalídes
Genitive	τῆς σῡκᾰλῐ́δος tês sūkalídos	τοῖν σῡκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn sūkalídoin	τῶν σῡκᾰλῐ́δων tôn sūkalídōn
Dative	τῇ σῡκᾰλῐ́δῐ têi sūkalídi	τοῖν σῡκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn sūkalídoin	ταῖς σῡκᾰλῐ́σῐ / σῡκᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs sūkalísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῡκᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn sūkalída	τὼ σῡκᾰλῐ́δε tṑ sūkalíde	τᾱ̀ς σῡκᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s sūkalídas
Vocative	σῡκᾰλῐ́ς sūkalís	σῡκᾰλῐ́δε sūkalíde	σῡκᾰλῐ́δες sūkalídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sicalis

Further reading

• “συκαλίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συκαλίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette