σῆραγξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formally similar to φάραγξ (pháranx, “ravine”). Sometimes connected with σέσηρα (sésēra, “to grin”), but this is semantically unprobable. It is rather a Pre-Greek word, in view of the suffix.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̂ː.raŋks/ → /ˈsi.raŋks/ → /ˈsi.raŋks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sɛ̂ː.raŋks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse̝.raŋks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.raŋks/

Noun

σῆραγξ • (sêranx) f (genitive σήρᾰγγος); third declension

1. cave hollowed out by water
2. (anatomy) pore or cavity of the body

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σῆρᾰγξ; τῆς σήρᾰγγος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῆρᾰγξ hē sêrănx	τὼ σήρᾰγγε tṑ sḗrănge	αἱ σήρᾰγγες hai sḗrănges
Genitive	τῆς σήρᾰγγος tês sḗrăngos	τοῖν σηρᾰ́γγοιν toîn sērắngoin	τῶν σηρᾰ́γγων tôn sērắngōn
Dative	τῇ σήρᾰγγῐ têi sḗrăngĭ	τοῖν σηρᾰ́γγοιν toîn sērắngoin	ταῖς σήρᾰγξῐ / σήρᾰγξῐν taîs sḗrănxĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σήρᾰγγᾰ tḕn sḗrăngă	τὼ σήρᾰγγε tṑ sḗrănge	τᾱ̀ς σήρᾰγγᾰς tā̀s sḗrăngăs
Vocative	σῆρᾰγξ sêrănx	σήρᾰγγε sḗrănge	σήρᾰγγες sḗrănges
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σηράγγιον (sērángion)
• σηραγγόομαι (sērangóomai)
• σηραγγώδης (sērangṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: σήραγγα (síranga)

Further reading

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