σμῶδιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The connection with σμῆν (smên) and σμώχω (smṓkhō, “to rub”) is formally and semantically unconvincing. It is rather a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zmɔ̂ː.diks/ → /ˈzmo.ðiks/ → /ˈzmo.ðiks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zmɔ̂ː.diks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈzmo.diks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈzmo.ðiks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈzmo.ðiks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈzmo.ðiks/

Noun

σμῶδῐξ • (smôdix) f (genitive σμώδῐγγος); third declension

1. weal, swollen bruise

   Synonym: μώλωψ (mṓlōps)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σμῶδῐξ; τῆς σμώδῐγγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σμῶδῐξ hē smôdix	τὼ σμώδῐγγε tṑ smṓdinge	αἱ σμώδῐγγες hai smṓdinges
Genitive	τῆς σμώδῐγγος tês smṓdingos	τοῖν σμωδῐ́γγοιν toîn smōdíngoin	τῶν σμωδῐ́γγων tôn smōdíngōn
Dative	τῇ σμώδῐγγῐ têi smṓdingi	τοῖν σμωδῐ́γγοιν toîn smōdíngoin	ταῖς σμώδῐγξῐ / σμώδῐγξῐν taîs smṓdinxi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σμώδῐγγᾰ tḕn smṓdinga	τὼ σμώδῐγγε tṑ smṓdinge	τᾱ̀ς σμώδῐγγᾰς tā̀s smṓdingas
Vocative	σμῶδῐξ smôdix	σμώδῐγγε smṓdinge	σμώδῐγγες smṓdinges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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