σέλαχος
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The formation resembles στέλεχος (stélekhos), τάριχος (tárikhos) and τέμαχος (témakhos). Connected with σέλας (sélas, “light, glow, beam”) already by Galen, because of the phosphorescent light of certain cartilaginous fishes; yet the suffix "-αχ-" may point to a Pre-Greek origin. The old connection with Proto-Germanic *selhaz (“seal”) is untenable.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sé.la.kʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈse.la.kʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈse.la.xos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈse.la.xos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈse.la.xos/
Noun
[edit]σέλᾰχος • (sélakhos) n (genitive σελᾰ́χους); third declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σέλᾰχος tò sélakhos |
τὼ σελᾰ́χει tṑ selákhei |
τᾰ̀ σελᾰ́χη tà selákhē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σελᾰ́χους toû selákhous |
τοῖν σελᾰχοῖν toîn selakhoîn |
τῶν σελᾰχῶν tôn selakhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σελᾰ́χει tôi selákhei |
τοῖν σελᾰχοῖν toîn selakhoîn |
τοῖς σελᾰ́χεσῐ / σελᾰ́χεσῐν toîs selákhesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σέλᾰχος tò sélakhos |
τὼ σελᾰ́χει tṑ selákhei |
τᾰ̀ σελᾰ́χη tà selákhē | ||||||||||
Vocative | σέλᾰχος sélakhos |
σελᾰ́χει selákhei |
σελᾰ́χη selákhē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “σέλαχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σέλαχος 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
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- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
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