σμαρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A connection with σμηρίζω (smērízō, “to plane, to polish”) is implausible. Furnée, instead, convincingly compares the word with σπάρος (spáros, “annular sea bream”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zma.rís/ → /zmaˈris/ → /zmaˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zma.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zmaˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zmaˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zmaˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zmaˈris/

Noun

σμᾰρίς • (smarís) f (genitive σμᾰρίδος); third declension

1. picarel (Spicara smaris)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σμᾰρῐ́ς; τῆς σμᾰρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σμᾰρῐ́ς hē smarís	τὼ σμᾰρῐ́δε tṑ smaríde	αἱ σμᾰρῐ́δες hai smarídes
Genitive	τῆς σμᾰρῐ́δος tês smarídos	τοῖν σμᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn smarídoin	τῶν σμᾰρῐ́δων tôn smarídōn
Dative	τῇ σμᾰρῐ́δῐ têi smarídi	τοῖν σμᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn smarídoin	ταῖς σμᾰρῐ́σῐ / σμᾰρῐ́σῐν taîs smarísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σμᾰρῐ́δᾰ tḕn smarída	τὼ σμᾰρῐ́δε tṑ smaríde	τᾱ̀ς σμᾰρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s smarídas
Vocative	σμᾰρῐ́ς smarís	σμᾰρῐ́δε smaríde	σμᾰρῐ́δες smarídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: smaris
• → Byzantine Greek: σμαρίδα (smarída) (learned)
• > Greek: μαρίδα (marída) (inherited)

Further reading

• “σμαρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σμαρίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette