συρφετός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σύρω (súrō, “to drag, sweep”), with enlargement in -φ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /syr.pʰe.tós/ → /syr.ɸeˈtos/ → /sir.feˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /syr.pʰe.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /syr.pʰeˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /syr.ɸeˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syr.feˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sir.feˈtos/

Noun

σῠρφετός • (sŭrphetós) m (genitive σῠρφετοῦ); second declension

1. anything dragged or swept together, sweepings, refuse, litter
2. (figuratively) mixed crowd, mob, rabble
3. (by extension) one of the mob, mobbist

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σῠρφετός; τοῦ σῠρφετοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῠρφετός ho sŭrphetós	τὼ σῠρφετώ tṑ sŭrphetṓ	οἱ σῠρφετοί hoi sŭrphetoí
Genitive	τοῦ σῠρφετοῦ toû sŭrphetoû	τοῖν σῠρφετοῖν toîn sŭrphetoîn	τῶν σῠρφετῶν tôn sŭrphetôn
Dative	τῷ σῠρφετῷ tôi sŭrphetôi	τοῖν σῠρφετοῖν toîn sŭrphetoîn	τοῖς σῠρφετοῖς toîs sŭrphetoîs
Accusative	τὸν σῠρφετόν tòn sŭrphetón	τὼ σῠρφετώ tṑ sŭrphetṓ	τοὺς σῠρφετούς toùs sŭrphetoús
Vocative	σῠρφετέ sŭrpheté	σῠρφετώ sŭrphetṓ	σῠρφετοί sŭrphetoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σῠρφετώδης (sŭrphetṓdēs)

Further reading

• “συρφετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “συρφετός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• συρφετός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette