σόρνιξα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Pre-Greek, like ῥόμιξα (rhómixa, “kind of javelin”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈsor.nik.sa/ → /ˈsor.nik.sa/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsor.nik.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsor.nik.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsor.nik.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsor.nik.sa/

Noun

σόρνιξα • (sórnixa)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: εὔζωμον (eúzōmon, “rocket, arugula”).

Further reading

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