Σαπφώ
Ancient Greek
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Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ)
Alternative forms
- Ψάπφω (Psápphō) – Aeolic
- Σάφφω (Sáphphō)
Etymology
According to Beekes, maybe from Pre-Greek due to the presence of the cluster "-πφ-".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sapʰ.pʰɔ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sapˈpʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sapˈɸo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sapˈfo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sapˈfo/
Proper noun
Σαπφώ • (Sapphṓ) f (genitive Σαπφοῦς); third declension
- Sappho
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σαπφώ; τῆς Σαπφοῦς (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Σαπφώ hē Sapphṓ | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Σαπφοῦς tês Sapphoûs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Σαπφοῖ têi Sapphoî | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Σαπφώ tḕn Sapphṓ | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Σαπφοῖ Sapphoî | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Arabic: صَافُو (ṣāfū)
- → Asturian: Safo
- → Basque: Safo
- → Breton: Sapfo
- → Bulgarian: Сафо (Safo)
- → Catalan: Safo
- → Czech: Sapfó
- → Danish: Sapfo
- → Dutch: Sappho
- → English: Sappho
- → Estonian: Sappho
- → Finnish: Sapfo
- → French: Sappho
- → Galician: Safo
- → German: Sappho
- → Low German: Sappho
- Greek: Σαπφώ (Sapfó)
- → Hebrew: סאפפו
- → Hungarian: Szapphó
- → Icelandic: Saffó
- → Italian: Saffo
- → Japanese: サッポー (Sappō)
- → Latin: Sappho
- → Latvian: Sapfo
- → Lithuanian: Sapfo
- → Mongolian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
- → Norwegian: Sapfo
- → Piedmontese: Safo
- → Polish: Safona
- → Portuguese: Safo
- → Romanian: Sappho
- → Russian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
- → Scottish Gaelic: Sappho
- → Serbo-Croatian: Сапфа/Sapfa, Sappho
- → Slovak: Sapfó
- → Slovene: Sapfo
- → Spanish: Safo
- → Swedish: Sapfo
- → Turkish: Sappho
- → Ukrainian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
- → Vietnamese: Sappho
References
- “Σαπφώ”, 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, page 1,024
- 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