σέρφος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- σύρφος (súrphos)
Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, probably of Pre-Greek origin. Compare also σέριφος (sériphos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sér.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈser.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈser.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈser.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈser.fos/
Noun
[edit]σέρφος • (sérphos) m (genitive σέρφου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σέρφος ho sérphos |
τὼ σέρφω tṑ sérphō |
οἱ σέρφοι hoi sérphoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σέρφου toû sérphou |
τοῖν σέρφοιν toîn sérphoin |
τῶν σέρφων tôn sérphōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σέρφῳ tôi sérphōi |
τοῖν σέρφοιν toîn sérphoin |
τοῖς σέρφοις toîs sérphois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σέρφον tòn sérphon |
τὼ σέρφω tṑ sérphō |
τοὺς σέρφους toùs sérphous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σέρφε sérphe |
σέρφω sérphō |
σέρφοι sérphoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
[edit]- “σέρφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σέρφος 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 terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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