Σίσυφος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of unknown origin. Possibilities include:
- A reduplicated form of σοφός (sophós, “wise”).
- A derivative of σίσυς (sísus, “a goat's skin”); see σισύρα (sisúra, “cloak of goat's hair”).[1]
- A Pre-Greek loan.[2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sǐː.sy.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sy.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sy.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.sy.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.si.fos/
Proper noun
Σῑ́σῠφος • (Sī́suphos) m (genitive Σῑσῠ́φου); second declension
- Sisyphus
- Τὸν Θάνατον ὁ Σίσυφος ἔδησεν. ― Tòn Thánaton ho Sísuphos édēsen. ― Death was bound by Sisyphus.
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Σῑ́σῠφος; τοῦ Σῑσῠ́φου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Σῑ́σῠφος ho Sī́suphos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Σῑσῠ́φου toû Sīsúphou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Σῑσῠ́φῳ tôi Sīsúphōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Σῑ́σῠφον tòn Sī́suphon | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Σῑ́σῠφε Sī́suphe | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σῑσῠ́φειος (sīsúpheios)
Descendants
- Greek: Σίσυφος (Sísyfos)
- → Latin: Sīsyphus
- → Catalan: Sísif
- → German: Sisyphus
- → French: Sisyphe
- → Italian: Sisifo
- → Sicilian: Sìsifu
- → Spanish: Sísifo
- → Portuguese: Sísifo
- Turkish: Sisifos
References
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
- RSP Beekes, Greek etymological dictionary
Further reading
- “Σίσυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- sisyphus idem, page 779.
- Σίσυφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette