σέσιλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Probably related to σέμελος (sémelos, “snail”) and perhaps both of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sé.siː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈse.si.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈse.si.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈse.si.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈse.si.los/
Noun
σέσῑλος • (sésīlos) m (genitive σεσῑ́λου); second declension
- land snail
- Synonyms: κόχλος (kókhlos), στρόμβος (strómbos)
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σέσῑλος; τοῦ σεσῑ́λου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σέσῑλος ho sésīlos | τὼ σεσῑ́λω tṑ sesī́lō | οἱ σέσῑλοι hoi sésīloi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σεσῑ́λου toû sesī́lou | τοῖν σεσῑ́λοιν toîn sesī́loin | τῶν σεσῑ́λων tôn sesī́lōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σεσῑ́λῳ tôi sesī́lōi | τοῖν σεσῑ́λοιν toîn sesī́loin | τοῖς σεσῑ́λοις toîs sesī́lois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σέσῑλον tòn sésīlon | τὼ σεσῑ́λω tṑ sesī́lō | τοὺς σεσῑ́λους toùs sesī́lous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σέσῑλε sésīle | σεσῑ́λω sesī́lō | σέσῑλοι sésīloi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σέσιλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σέσιλος 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