σίττη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἵττα (hítta), σῐ́ττος (síttos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of onomatopoeic origin but Furnée links the word with ψίττακος (psíttakos, “parrot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sít.tɛː/ → /ˈsit.ti/ → /ˈsi.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sít.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ti/

Noun

σῐ́ττη • (síttē) f (genitive σῐ́ττης); first declension

1. nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῐ́ττη; τῆς σῐ́ττης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐ́ττη hē síttē	τὼ σῐ́ττᾱ tṑ síttā	αἱ σῐ́τται hai síttai
Genitive	τῆς σῐ́ττης tês síttēs	τοῖν σῐ́τταιν toîn síttain	τῶν σῐττῶν tôn sittôn
Dative	τῇ σῐ́ττῃ têi síttēi	τοῖν σῐ́τταιν toîn síttain	ταῖς σῐ́τταις taîs síttais
Accusative	τὴν σῐ́ττην tḕn síttēn	τὼ σῐ́ττᾱ tṑ síttā	τᾱ̀ς σῐ́ττᾱς tā̀s síttās
Vocative	σῐ́ττη síttē	σῐ́ττᾱ síttā	σῐ́τται síttai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sitta

Further reading

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