σελίς
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clearly related to σέλμα (sélma, “deck of a ship”). These words have been compared to Old English selma and syll, and to German Schwelle (“threshold”), but phonetically this etymology is unconvincing. If the gloss cited by Hesychius, ἔλματα (élmata, “planking”), is cognate, then the σελμα-ἔλμα alternation would point to a Pre-Greek origin.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.lís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
Noun
[edit]σελίς • (selís) f (genitive σελίδος); third declension
- (architecture) crossbeam of stone in ceiling construction
- block or sector of seats in a theater
- rowing bench
- column of writing in a papyrus roll
- writing page
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σελῐ́ς hē selís |
τὼ σελῐ́δε tṑ selíde |
αἱ σελῐ́δες hai selídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σελῐ́δος tês selídos |
τοῖν σελῐ́δοιν toîn selídoin |
τῶν σελῐ́δων tôn selídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σελῐ́δῐ têi selídi |
τοῖν σελῐ́δοιν toîn selídoin |
ταῖς σελῐ́σῐ / σελῐ́σῐν taîs selísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σελῐ́δᾰ tḕn selída |
τὼ σελῐ́δε tṑ selíde |
τᾱ̀ς σελῐ́δᾰς tā̀s selídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σελῐ́ς selís |
σελῐ́δε selíde |
σελῐ́δες selídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- σελιδηφάγος (selidēphágos)
- σελίδιον (selídion)
- σελίδωμα (selídōma)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: σελίδα (selída)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σελίς, ίδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1319-20
Further reading
[edit]- “σελίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σελίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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