σίτλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

σίτλα • (sítla) f (genitive σίτλης); first declension

1. bucket, pail

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῐ́τλᾰ; τῆς σῐ́τλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐ́τλᾰ hē sĭ́tlă	τὼ σῐ́τλᾱ tṑ sĭ́tlā	αἱ σῐ́τλαι hai sĭ́tlai
Genitive	τῆς σῐ́τλης tês sĭ́tlēs	τοῖν σῐ́τλαιν toîn sĭ́tlain	τῶν σῐτλῶν tôn sĭtlôn
Dative	τῇ σῐ́τλῃ têi sĭ́tlēi	τοῖν σῐ́τλαιν toîn sĭ́tlain	ταῖς σῐ́τλαις taîs sĭ́tlais
Accusative	τὴν σῐ́τλᾰν tḕn sĭ́tlăn	τὼ σῐ́τλᾱ tṑ sĭ́tlā	τᾱ̀ς σῐ́τλᾱς tā̀s sĭ́tlās
Vocative	σῐ́τλᾰ sĭ́tlă	σῐ́τλᾱ sĭ́tlā	σῐ́τλαι sĭ́tlai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: سَطْل (saṭl)
  • Gulf Arabic: صَطِل (ṣaṭil)
  • Hijazi Arabic: سطل (saṭil)
  • Maltese: satal
  • Moroccan Arabic: سطل (sṭal)
  • → Catalan: setra
  • → Classical Persian: سَطْل (satl), ستل (satl), سلط (salt) (dialectal, Khvorasgan)
    • Tajik: сатл (satl), сатил (satil)
  • → Georgian: სათლი (satli)
  • → Lishana Deni: צטלא (ṣəṭla)
  • → Spanish: acetre
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܣܺܝܛܠܴܐ (sīṭlā)

  → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܝܼܛܠܵܐ (sīṭlā) (learned)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: סטלה

• → Classical Persian: سَتْل (satl)

Further reading

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