σίγλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σίκλος (síklos)

Etymology

From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.ɡlos/ → /ˈsi.ɣlos/ → /ˈsi.ɣlos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.ɡlos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɡlos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɣlos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɣlos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ɣlos/

Noun

σίγλος • (síglos) m (genitive σίγλου); second declension

1. shekel, an ancient unit of weight
2. shekel, a currency used in ancient Israel
3. earring

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῐ́γλος; τοῦ σῐ́γλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́γλος ho sĭ́glos	τὼ σῐ́γλω tṑ sĭ́glō	οἱ σῐ́γλοι hoi sĭ́gloi
Genitive	τοῦ σῐ́γλου toû sĭ́glou	τοῖν σῐ́γλοιν toîn sĭ́gloin	τῶν σῐ́γλων tôn sĭ́glōn
Dative	τῷ σῐ́γλῳ tôi sĭ́glōi	τοῖν σῐ́γλοιν toîn sĭ́gloin	τοῖς σῐ́γλοις toîs sĭ́glois
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́γλον tòn sĭ́glon	τὼ σῐ́γλω tṑ sĭ́glō	τοὺς σῐ́γλους toùs sĭ́glous
Vocative	σῐ́γλε sĭ́gle	σῐ́γλω sĭ́glō	σῐ́γλοι sĭ́gloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σιγλοφόρος (siglophóros)

Descendants

• → Latin: siclus (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Georgian: სიკლაჲ (siḳlay)

Further reading

• “σίγλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σίγλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σίγλος 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