συκαλίς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• συκαλλίς (sukallís), συκαλλός (sukallós)

Etymology

From σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”), with a suffix found in other bird names, like ὀρταλίς (ortalís, “hen, fowl”) and πυραλίς (puralís, “kind of bird”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syː.ka.lís/ → /sy.kaˈlis/ → /si.kaˈlis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syː.ka.lís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sy.kaˈlis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sy.kaˈlis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sy.kaˈlis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈlis/

Noun

σῡκᾰλῐ́ς • (sūkălĭ́s) f (genitive σῡκᾰλῐ́δος); third declension

1. beccafico (Sylvia hortensis)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῡκᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς σῡκᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῡκᾰλῐ́ς hē sūkălĭ́s	τὼ σῡκᾰλῐ́δε tṑ sūkălĭ́de	αἱ σῡκᾰλῐ́δες hai sūkălĭ́des
Genitive	τῆς σῡκᾰλῐ́δος tês sūkălĭ́dos	τοῖν σῡκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn sūkălĭ́doin	τῶν σῡκᾰλῐ́δων tôn sūkălĭ́dōn
Dative	τῇ σῡκᾰλῐ́δῐ têi sūkălĭ́dĭ	τοῖν σῡκᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn sūkălĭ́doin	ταῖς σῡκᾰλῐ́σῐ / σῡκᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs sūkălĭ́sĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σῡκᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn sūkălĭ́dă	τὼ σῡκᾰλῐ́δε tṑ sūkălĭ́de	τᾱ̀ς σῡκᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s sūkălĭ́dăs
Vocative	σῡκᾰλῐ́ς sūkălĭ́s	σῡκᾰλῐ́δε sūkălĭ́de	σῡκᾰλῐ́δες sūkălĭ́des
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

• → Translingual: Sicalis

Further reading

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