σάννας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Frisk and DELG, from the verb σαίνω (saínō, “to wag; flatter”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sán.naːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsan.nas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsan.nas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsan.nas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsa.nas/
Noun
σᾰ́ννᾱς • (sánnās) m (genitive σᾰ́ννου); first declension
- zany, fool, buffoon
Inflection
First declension of ὁ σᾰ́ννᾱς; τοῦ σᾰ́ννου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σᾰ́ννᾱς ho sánnās | τὼ σᾰ́ννᾱ tṑ sánnā | οἱ σᾰ́νναι hoi sánnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σᾰ́ννου toû sánnou | τοῖν σᾰ́νναιν toîn sánnain | τῶν σᾰννῶν tôn sannôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σᾰ́ννᾳ tôi sánnāi | σᾰ́νναιν sánnain | τοῖς σᾰ́νναις toîs sánnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σᾰ́ννᾱν tòn sánnān | σᾰ́ννᾱ sánnā | τοὺς σᾰ́ννᾱς toùs sánnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σᾰ́ννᾱ sánnā | σᾰ́ννᾱ sánnā | σᾰ́νναι sánnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σᾰννῐ́ων (sanníōn)
- σᾰ́ννορος (sánnoros)
Descendants
- → Latin: sanna
Further reading
- σάννας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σάννας 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