σέρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σέρεις (séreis)

Etymology

Beekes gives no etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sé.ris/ → /ˈse.ris/ → /ˈse.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sé.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ris/

Noun

σέρῐς • (sérĭs) f (genitive σέρῐδος); third declension

1. endive or chicory

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σέρῐς; τῆς σέρῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σέρῐς hē sérĭs	τὼ σέρῐδε tṑ sérĭde	αἱ σέρῐδες hai sérĭdes
Genitive	τῆς σέρῐδος tês sérĭdos	τοῖν σερῐ́δοιν toîn serĭ́doin	τῶν σερῐ́δων tôn serĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ σέρῐδῐ têi sérĭdĭ	τοῖν σερῐ́δοιν toîn serĭ́doin	ταῖς σέρῐσῐ / σέρῐσῐν taîs sérĭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σέρῐδᾰ tḕn sérĭdă	τὼ σέρῐδε tṑ sérĭde	τᾱ̀ς σέρῐδᾰς tā̀s sérĭdăs
Vocative	σέρῐς sérĭs	σέρῐδε sérĭde	σέρῐδες sérĭdes
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.

Derived terms

• ὑόσερις (huóseris)

Descendants

• Latin: seris

References

• “σέρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σέρις 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