σέσυφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, in view of the reduplication, and probably related to Σίσυφος (Sísuphos).
Pronunciation
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈse.sy.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈse.sy.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈse.sy.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈse.si.fos/
Adjective
σέσυφος • (sésuphos)
- Hesychius gives the definition as: πανοῦργος (panoûrgos, “knavish, villainous”).
Further reading
- “σέσυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ