σικχός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The cluster -κχ- makes an Indo-European origin unlikely. Further unclear; assumed Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sikʰ.kʰós/ → /sikˈxos/ → /sikˈxos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sikʰ.kʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sikˈkʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sikˈxos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sikˈxos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sikˈxos/

Noun

σῐκχός • (sĭkkhós) m (genitive σῐκχοῦ); second declension

1. squeamish, fastidious person, especially in eating

   Antonym: πᾰμφᾰ́γος (pămphắgos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῐκχός; τοῦ σῐκχοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐκχός ho sĭkkhós	τὼ σῐκχώ tṑ sĭkkhṓ	οἱ σῐκχοί hoi sĭkkhoí
Genitive	τοῦ σῐκχοῦ toû sĭkkhoû	τοῖν σῐκχοῖν toîn sĭkkhoîn	τῶν σῐκχῶν tôn sĭkkhôn
Dative	τῷ σῐκχῷ tôi sĭkkhôi	τοῖν σῐκχοῖν toîn sĭkkhoîn	τοῖς σῐκχοῖς toîs sĭkkhoîs
Accusative	τὸν σῐκχόν tòn sĭkkhón	τὼ σῐκχώ tṑ sĭkkhṓ	τοὺς σῐκχούς toùs sĭkkhoús
Vocative	σῐκχέ sĭkkhé	σῐκχώ sĭkkhṓ	σῐκχοί sĭkkhoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄσῐκχος (ásĭkkhos)
• σικχαίνομαι (sikkhaínomai)
• σῐκχαίνω (sĭkkhaínō)
• σῐκχᾰντός (sĭkkhăntós)
• σῐκχᾰσῐ́ᾱ (sĭkkhăsĭ́ā)
• σῐκχᾰσμός (sĭkkhăsmós)
• σίκχος (síkkhos)
• σικχότης (sikkhótēs)

Further reading

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