σάκχαρ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σάκχαρι (sákkhari), σάκχαρις (sákkharis), σάκχαρον (sákkharon)
Etymology
From Pali sakkharā, from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “grit, gravel; ground or candied sugar”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sákʰ.kʰar/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsak.kʰar/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsak.xar/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsak.xar/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsak.xar/
Noun
σᾰ́κχαρ • (sákkhar) n (genitive σᾰ́κχαρος); third declension
- sugar
- sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ σᾰ́κχαρ; τοῦ σᾰ́κχαρος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σᾰ́κχαρ tò sákkhar | τὼ σᾰ́κχαρε tṑ sákkhare | τᾰ̀ σᾰ́κχαρᾰ tà sákkhara | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σᾰ́κχαρος toû sákkharos | τοῖν σᾰκχάροιν toîn sakkhároin | τῶν σᾰκχάρων tôn sakkhárōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σᾰ́κχαρῐ tôi sákkhari | τοῖν σᾰκχάροιν toîn sakkhároin | τοῖς σᾰ́κχαρσῐ / σᾰ́κχαρσῐν toîs sákkharsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σᾰ́κχαρ tò sákkhar | τὼ σᾰ́κχαρε tṑ sákkhare | τᾰ̀ σᾰ́κχαρᾰ tà sákkhara | ||||||||||
Vocative | σᾰ́κχαρ sákkhar | σᾰ́κχαρε sákkhare | σᾰ́κχαρᾰ sákkhara | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: saccharon
References
- σάκχαρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάκχαρ 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