σισύμβριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.sým.bri.on/ → /siˈsym.bri.on/ → /siˈsim.bri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.sým.bri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈsym.bri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈsym.bri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈsym.bri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈsim.bri.on/

Noun

σῐσύμβρῐον • (sisúmbrion) n (genitive σῐσυμβρίου); second declension

1. water mint (Mentha aquatica)
2. watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
3. woman's ornament

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σῐσύμβρῐον; τοῦ σῐσυμβρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῐσύμβρῐον tò sisúmbrion	τὼ σῐσυμβρῐ́ω tṑ sisumbríō	τᾰ̀ σῐσύμβρῐᾰ tà sisúmbria
Genitive	τοῦ σῐσυμβρῐ́ου toû sisumbríou	τοῖν σῐσυμβρῐ́οιν toîn sisumbríoin	τῶν σῐσυμβρῐ́ων tôn sisumbríōn
Dative	τῷ σῐσυμβρῐ́ῳ tôi sisumbríōi	τοῖν σῐσυμβρῐ́οιν toîn sisumbríoin	τοῖς σῐσυμβρῐ́οις toîs sisumbríois
Accusative	τὸ σῐσύμβρῐον tò sisúmbrion	τὼ σῐσυμβρῐ́ω tṑ sisumbríō	τᾰ̀ σῐσύμβρῐᾰ tà sisúmbria
Vocative	σῐσύμβρῐον sisúmbrion	σῐσυμβρῐ́ω sisumbríō	σῐσύμβρῐᾰ sisúmbria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σισύμβρινος (sisúmbrinos)

Descendants

• → Latin: sisymbrium
• → Middle Persian: [script needed] (sysymbl), [script needed] (sysynbl /⁠sīsīmbar⁠/)
  • Persian: سوسنبر (susanbar)
• → Translingual: Sisymbrium

Further reading

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