σαλαμάνδρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Given its non-Indo-European structure, this word may be Pre-Greek. Confront also σαύρα (saúra) and Persian سمندر (samandar, “salamander”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sa.la.mán.dra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sa.laˈman.dra/
Noun
σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ • (salamándra) f (genitive σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς); first declension
- fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ; τῆς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ hē salamándra | τὼ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱ tṑ salamándrā | αἱ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραι hai salamándrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς tês salamándrās | τοῖν σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραιν toîn salamándrain | τῶν σᾰλᾰμᾰνδρῶν tôn salamandrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾳ têi salamándrāi | σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραιν salamándrain | ταῖς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραις taîs salamándrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰν tḕn salamándran | σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱ salamándrā | τᾱ̀ς σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱς tā̀s salamándrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾰ salamándra | σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδρᾱ salamándrā | σᾰλᾰμᾰ́νδραι salamándrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σαλαμάνδρειος (salamándreios)
Descendants
- → Latin: salamandra
- → English: salamander
- → Italian: salamandra
- → Translingual: Salamandra
References
- σαλαμάνδρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σαλαμάνδρα 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