σισύρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to σίσυρνα (sísurna) and σίσυς (sísus). According to Furnée, from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.sý.raː/ → /siˈsy.ra/ → /siˈsi.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.sý.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /siˈsy.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /siˈsy.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /siˈsy.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /siˈsi.ra/

Noun

σῐσύρᾱ • (sisúrā) f (genitive σῐσύρᾱς); first declension

1. cloak made of goat's hair
2. coverlet for the night

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῐσύρᾱ; τῆς σῐσύρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐσύρᾱ hē sisúrā	τὼ σῐσύρᾱ tṑ sisúrā	αἱ σῐσύραι hai sisúrai
Genitive	τῆς σῐσύρᾱς tês sisúrās	τοῖν σῐσύραιν toîn sisúrain	τῶν σῐσυρῶν tôn sisurôn
Dative	τῇ σῐσύρᾳ têi sisúrāi	τοῖν σῐσύραιν toîn sisúrain	ταῖς σῐσύραις taîs sisúrais
Accusative	τὴν σῐσύρᾱν tḕn sisúrān	τὼ σῐσύρᾱ tṑ sisúrā	τᾱ̀ς σῐσύρᾱς tā̀s sisúrās
Vocative	σῐσύρᾱ sisúrā	σῐσύρᾱ sisúrā	σῐσύραι sisúrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σισυροποιός (sisuropoiós)

Descendants

• Latin: sisura
• → Translingual: Sisyra

Further reading

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