σειρά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σειρή (seirḗ) — Ionic
• σηρᾱ́ (sērā́) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *tseřřā́, from Proto-Indo-European *twerH-yeh₂- (“seizing”), from *twerH- (“to grab, seize, enclose”). The traditional connection to εἴρω (eírō, “to connect”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”), is semantically more appealing than the above, but fails to explain the initial σ- (s-).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /seː.rǎː/ → /siˈra/ → /siˈra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /seː.rǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈra/

Noun

σειρᾱ́ • (seirā́) f (genitive σειρᾶς); first declension

1. cord, rope
2. (Koine) chain

Declension

First declension of ἡ σειρᾱ́; τῆς σειρᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σειρᾱ́ hē seirā́	τὼ σειρᾱ́ tṑ seirā́	αἱ σειραί hai seiraí
Genitive	τῆς σειρᾶς tês seirâs	τοῖν σειραῖν toîn seiraîn	τῶν σειρῶν tôn seirôn
Dative	τῇ σειρᾷ têi seirâi	τοῖν σειραῖν toîn seiraîn	ταῖς σειραῖς taîs seiraîs
Accusative	τὴν σειρᾱ́ν tḕn seirā́n	τὼ σειρᾱ́ tṑ seirā́	τᾱ̀ς σειρᾱ́ς tā̀s seirā́s
Vocative	σειρᾱ́ seirā́	σειρᾱ́ seirā́	σειραί seiraí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• σειρά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “σειρά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G4577 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σειρά (seirá). The sense “TV series” is a semantic loan from French série or from English serial.

Noun

σειρά • (seirá) f (plural σειρές)

1. class (military; persons subject to the same intake)
2. line (of text)
3. order (arrangement, disposition, sequence; the state of being well arranged)

   αλφαβητική σειρά ― alfavitikí seirá ― alphabetical order

4. turn

   Είναι η σειρά μου να μιλήσω.

   Eínai i seirá mou na milíso.

   It's my turn to speak.

5. series; serial; TV series

   Synonym: σήριαλ (sírial)

Declension

Declension of σειρά

	singular	plural
nominative	σειρά (seirá)	σειρές (seirés)
genitive	σειράς (seirás)	σειρών (seirón)
accusative	σειρά (seirá)	σειρές (seirés)
vocative	σειρά (seirá)	σειρές (seirés)

Related terms

• αλφαβητική σειρά f (alfavitikí seirá, “alphabetical order”)

Descendants

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: صِرَه (sıra), صِیرَا (sıra), صِیرَه (sıra)
  • Azerbaijani: sıra
  • Gagauz: sıra
  • Ottoman Turkish: صره (sıra), صیره (sıra), صیرا (sıra)
    • Turkish: sıra
    • → Armenian: սըրա (səra)
    • → Crimean Tatar: sıra

Further reading

• σειρά, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• σειρά on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el