σίνων

σίνων

See also: Σινῶν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σίσων (sísōn)

Etymology

According to Pedanius Dioscorides, this plant is at home in Syria. Origin unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sí.nɔːn/ → /ˈsi.non/ → /ˈsi.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sí.nɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.non/

Noun

σῐ́νων • (sínōn) m (genitive σῐ́νωνος); third declension

1. stone parsley (Sison amomum)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ σῐ́νων; τοῦ σῐ́νωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σῐ́νων ho sínōn	τὼ σῐ́νωνε tṑ sínōne	οἱ σῐ́νωνες hoi sínōnes
Genitive	τοῦ σῐ́νωνος toû sínōnos	τοῖν σῐνώνοιν toîn sinṓnoin	τῶν σῐνώνων tôn sinṓnōn
Dative	τῷ σῐ́νωνῐ tôi sínōni	τοῖν σῐνώνοιν toîn sinṓnoin	τοῖς σῐ́νωσῐ / σῐ́νωσῐν toîs sínōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σῐ́νωνᾰ tòn sínōna	τὼ σῐ́νωνε tṑ sínōne	τοὺς σῐ́νωνᾰς toùs sínōnas
Vocative	σῐ́νων sínōn	σῐ́νωνε sínōne	σῐ́νωνες sínōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sison

Further reading

• “σίνων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίνων 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