Σιδών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Phoenician 𐤑𐤉𐤃𐤅𐤍 (ṣydwn /⁠Ṣīdūn⁠/). Cognate with Hebrew צִידוֹן (Ṣīḏōn) and Aramaic ܨܝܕܘܢ (Ṣidon).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /siː.dɔ̌ːn/ → /siˈðon/ → /siˈðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /siː.dɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈdon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈðon/

Proper noun

Σῑδών • (Sīdṓn) f (genitive Σιδῶνος); third declension

1. Sidon or Zidon, a Phoenician city.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Σῑδών; τῆς Σῑδῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῑδών hē Sīdṓn
Genitive	τῆς Σῑδῶνος tês Sīdônos
Dative	τῇ Σῑδῶνῐ têi Sīdôni
Accusative	τὴν Σῑδῶνᾰ tḕn Sīdôna
Vocative	Σῑδών Sīdṓn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σιδόνες (Sidónes)
• Σιδονίηθεν (Sidoníēthen)
• Σιδόνιοι (Sidónioi)
• Σιδόνιος (Sidónios)
• Σιδονυφής (Sidonuphḗs)
• Σιδωνιάς (Sidōniás)
• Σιδώνιος (Sidṓnios)

Descendants

• English: Sidon (Zidon was a KJV-era Hebrew loan)
• Greek: Σιδών (Sidón); Σιδώνα (Sidóna)
• Latin: Sīdōn
  • English: Sidon
  • Catalan: Sidó
  • French: Sidon
  • Italian: Sidone
  • Ligurian: Sidón
  • Lombard: Sidun
  • Portuguese: Sídon
  • Romanian: Sidon
  • Sicilian: Siduni
  • Spanish: Sidón
• Old Armenian: Սիդոն (Sidon)
• Russian: Сидо́н (Sidón)

References

• “Σιδών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4605 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[2], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN