Σαπφώ

Ancient Greek

Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ)

Alternative forms

• Ψάπφω (Psápphō) — Aeolic
• Σάφφω (Sáphphō)

Etymology

According to Beekes, maybe from Pre-Greek due to the presence of the cluster "-πφ-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sapʰ.pʰɔ̌ː/ → /sapˈɸo/ → /sapˈfo/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sapʰ.pʰɔ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sapˈpʰo/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sapˈɸo/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sapˈfo/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sapˈfo/

Proper noun

Σαπφώ • (Sapphṓ) f (genitive Σαπφοῦς); third declension

1. Sappho

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Σαπφώ; τῆς Σαπφοῦς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σαπφώ hē Sapphṓ
Genitive	τῆς Σαπφοῦς tês Sapphoûs
Dative	τῇ Σαπφοῖ têi Sapphoî
Accusative	τὴν Σαπφώ tḕn Sapphṓ
Vocative	Σαπφοῖ Sapphoî
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: صَافُو (ṣāfū)
• → Asturian: Safo
• → Basque: Safo
• → Breton: Sapfo
• → Bulgarian: Сафо (Safo)
• → Catalan: Safo
• → Czech: Sapfó
• → Danish: Sapfo
• → Dutch: Sappho
• → English: Sappho
• → Estonian: Sappho
• → Finnish: Sapfo
• → French: Sappho
• → Galician: Safo
• → German: Sappho
• → Low German: Sappho
• Greek: Σαπφώ (Sapfó)
• → Hebrew: סאפפו
• → Hungarian: Szapphó
• → Icelandic: Saffó
• → Italian: Saffo
• → Chinese: 萨孚
• → Japanese: サッポー (Sappō)
• → Latin: Sappho
• → Latvian: Sapfo
• → Lithuanian: Sapfo
• → Mongolian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
• → Norwegian: Sapfo
• → Piedmontese: Safo
• → Polish: Safona
• → Portuguese: Safo
• → Romanian: Sappho
• → Russian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
• → Scottish Gaelic: Sappho
• → Serbo-Croatian: Сапфа/Sapfa, Sappho
• → Slovak: Sapfó
• → Slovene: Sapfo
• → Spanish: Safo
• → Swedish: Sapfo
• → Turkish: Sappho
• → Ukrainian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
• → Vietnamese: Sappho

References

• “Σαπφώ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,024
• 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