σιαγών

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σιηγών (siēgṓn) — Ionic

Etymology

Connection with ψίομαι (psíomai, “to chew”) is semantically attractive, but the formation is quite unclear. Since an Indo-European origin is formally hardly possible, the word could well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.aː.ɡɔ̌ːn/ → /si.aˈɣon/ → /si.aˈɣon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.aː.ɡɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.aˈɡon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.aˈɣon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.aˈɣon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.aˈɣon/

Noun

σῐᾱγών • (siāgṓn) f (genitive σῐᾱγόνος); third declension

1. (anatomy) jaw, jawbone, maxilla

   Synonyms: γαμφηλαί (gamphēlaí), γνάθος (gnáthos)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σῐᾱγών; τῆς σῐᾱγόνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐᾱγών hē siāgṓn	τὼ σῐᾱγόνε tṑ siāgóne	αἱ σῐᾱγόνες hai siāgónes
Genitive	τῆς σῐᾱγόνος tês siāgónos	τοῖν σῐᾱγόνοιν toîn siāgónoin	τῶν σῐᾱγόνων tôn siāgónōn
Dative	τῇ σῐᾱγόνῐ têi siāgóni	τοῖν σῐᾱγόνοιν toîn siāgónoin	ταῖς σῐᾱγόσῐ / σῐᾱγόσῐν taîs siāgósi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῐᾱγόνᾰ tḕn siāgóna	τὼ σῐᾱγόνε tṑ siāgóne	τᾱ̀ς σῐᾱγόνᾰς tā̀s siāgónas
Vocative	σῐᾱγών siāgṓn	σῐᾱγόνε siāgóne	σῐᾱγόνες siāgónes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σιαγόνιον (siagónion)
• σιαγονίτης (siagonítēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: σιαγόνα (siagóna)
• → Latin: siāgonēs

Further reading

• “σιαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σιαγών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σιαγών 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