σίραμφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects the word with σήραμβος (sḗrambos, “kind of beetle”). However, Beekes finds this connection semantically unlikely. Compare also ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “beak”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ram.ɸos/ → /ˈsi.ram.fos/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ram.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ram.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ram.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ram.fos/

Noun

σίραμφος • (síramphos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout; beak”).

Further reading

• “σίραμφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σήραμβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1324
• Hesychius' Lexicon: σ