σημύδα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɛː.mý.da/ → /siˈmy.ða/ → /siˈmi.ða/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sɛː.mý.da/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /se̝ˈmy.da/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈmy.ða/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈmy.ða/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈmi.ða/

Noun

σημύδα • (sēmúda) f (genitive σημύδης); first declension (hapax)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum)

      Synonym: κερκίς (kerkís)

   2. silver birch (Betula pendula)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σημῠ́δᾰ; τῆς σημῠ́δης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σημῠ́δᾰ hē sēmúda	τὼ σημῠ́δᾱ tṑ sēmúdā	αἱ σημῠ́δαι hai sēmúdai
Genitive	τῆς σημῠ́δης tês sēmúdēs	τοῖν σημῠ́δαιν toîn sēmúdain	τῶν σημῠδῶν tôn sēmudôn
Dative	τῇ σημῠ́δῃ têi sēmúdēi	τοῖν σημῠ́δαιν toîn sēmúdain	ταῖς σημῠ́δαις taîs sēmúdais
Accusative	τὴν σημῠ́δᾰν tḕn sēmúdan	τὼ σημῠ́δᾱ tṑ sēmúdā	τᾱ̀ς σημῠ́δᾱς tā̀s sēmúdās
Vocative	σημῠ́δᾰ sēmúda	σημῠ́δᾱ sēmúdā	σημῠ́δαι sēmúdai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Arabic: سَنْدَر (sandar, “birch”)
• → Greek: σημύδα (simýda, “birch”) (learned)

Further reading

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