σάββατον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (šabbāṯ, “sabbath”).
Pronunciation
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsab.ba.ton/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsaβ.βa.ton/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsav.va.ton/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.va.ton/
Noun
σάββατον • (sábbaton) n (genitive σαββάτου); second declension
- Sabbath
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ σάββατον; τοῦ σαββάτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σάββατον tò sábbaton | τᾰ̀ σάββατᾰ tà sábbata | |||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σαββάτου toû sabbátou | τῶν σαββάτων tôn sabbátōn | |||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σαββάτῳ tôi sabbátōi | τοῖς σάββασῐ / σάββασῐν / σαββάτοις toîs sábbasi(n) / sabbátois | |||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σάββατον tò sábbaton | τᾰ̀ σάββατᾰ tà sábbata | |||||||||||
Vocative | σάββατον sábbaton | σάββατᾰ sábbata | |||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Σάββατο (Sávvato)
- → Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲟⲛ (sabbaton)
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉 (sabbatō), *𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉 (*sambatō) (via early Byzantine σάμβατον (sámbaton)) (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: sabbatum (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: սաբատ (sabat), սաբբատ (sabbat)
Further reading
- Σάββατον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάββατον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4521 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979