σέλινον
See also: selinon
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pre-Greek.[1] Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀮𐀪𐀜 (se-ri-no).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sé.liː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈse.li.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈse.li.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈse.li.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈse.li.non/
Noun
σέλῑνον • (sélīnon) n (genitive σελῑ́νου); second declension
- celery
Declension
Second declension of τὸ σέλῑνον; τοῦ σελῑ́νου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σέλῑνον tò sélīnon | τὼ σελῑ́νω tṑ selī́nō | τᾰ̀ σέλῑνᾰ tà sélīna | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σελῑ́νου toû selī́nou | τοῖν σελῑ́νοιν toîn selī́noin | τῶν σελῑ́νων tôn selī́nōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σελῑ́νῳ tôi selī́nōi | τοῖν σελῑ́νοιν toîn selī́noin | τοῖς σελῑ́νοις toîs selī́nois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σέλῑνον tò sélīnon | τὼ σελῑ́νω tṑ selī́nō | τᾰ̀ σέλῑνᾰ tà sélīna | ||||||||||
Vocative | σέλῑνον sélīnon | σελῑ́νω selī́nō | σέλῑνᾰ sélīna | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βουσέλῑνον (bousélīnon)
- ἐλειοσέλῑνον (eleiosélīnon)
- ἱπποσέλῑνον (hipposélīnon)
- πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon)
- σελῑ́νῐνος (selī́ninos)
- σελῑνῖτῐς (selīnîtis)
- ὑδροσέλῑνον (hudrosélīnon)
- ψευδοσέλῑνον (pseudosélīnon)
Descendants
- Greek: σέλινο (sélino)
- → Albanian: selino
- → Ge'ez: ሲላን (silan), ሲለን (silän), ስለን (səlän)
- Tigre: ሺላን (šilan)
- Tigrinya: ሽላን (šəlan)
- →? Amharic: ሽላን (šəlan, šəllan)
- → Late Latin: selīnon
- → Catalan: selí
- → French: sélin
- Italian: sellero (Probably North Italy)
- Ligurian: sélou
- Lombard: seller, sèlen; selleri (plural)
- → French: céleri (see there for further descendants)
- Piedmontese: séler, sélen, séleri
- → Romanian: țelină (also influenced by Slavic)
References
- 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, page 1319
Further reading
- “σέλινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press