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 • (sikkhós) m (genitive σῐκχοῦ); second declension

1. squeamish, fastidious person, especially in eating

   Antonym: πᾰμφᾰ́γος (pamphágos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῐκχός; τοῦ σῐκχοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐκχός ho sikkhós	τὼ σῐκχώ tṑ sikkhṓ	οἱ σῐκχοί hoi sikkhoí
Genitive	τοῦ σῐκχοῦ toû sikkhoû	τοῖν σῐκχοῖν toîn sikkhoîn	τῶν σῐκχῶν tôn sikkhôn
Dative	τῷ σῐκχῷ tôi sikkhôi	τοῖν σῐκχοῖν toîn sikkhoîn	τοῖς σῐκχοῖς toîs sikkhoîs
Accusative	τὸν σῐκχόν tòn sikkhón	τὼ σῐκχώ tṑ sikkhṓ	τοὺς σῐκχούς toùs sikkhoús
Vocative	σῐκχέ sikkhé	σῐκχώ sikkhṓ	σῐκχοί sikkhoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄσῐκχος (ásikkhos)
• σικχαίνομαι (sikkhaínomai)
• σῐκχαίνω (sikkhaínō)
• σῐκχᾰντός (sikkhantós)
• σῐκχᾰσῐ́ᾱ (sikkhasíā)
• σῐκχᾰσμός (sikkhasmós)
• 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