σαῦσαξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Older etymologies involve connections with σαυκρόν (saukrón, “delicate, light”), σαυχμόν (saukhmón, “tender, unsound, weak”) and σαυσαρόν (sausarón, “whispering, slanderous”). Furnée is undoubtedly correct in connecting σώσικες (sṓsikes, “cooked beans”), which shows that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sâu̯.saks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsaʍ.saks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsaɸ.saks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsaf.saks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsaf.saks/
Noun
σαῦσᾰξ • (saûsax) m (genitive σαῡ́σᾰκος); third declension
- kind of leguminous plant
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ σαῦσᾰξ; τοῦ σαῡ́σᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σαῦσᾰξ ho saûsax | τὼ σαῡ́σᾰκε tṑ saū́sake | οἱ σαῡ́σᾰκες hoi saū́sakes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σαῡ́σᾰκος toû saū́sakos | τοῖν σαῡσᾰ́κοιν toîn saūsákoin | τῶν σαῡσᾰ́κων tôn saūsákōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σαῡ́σᾰκῐ tôi saū́saki | τοῖν σαῡσᾰ́κοιν toîn saūsákoin | τοῖς σαῡ́σᾰξῐ / σαῡ́σᾰξῐν toîs saū́saxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σαῡ́σᾰκᾰ tòn saū́saka | τὼ σαῡ́σᾰκε tṑ saū́sake | τοὺς σαῡ́σᾰκᾰς toùs saū́sakas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σαῦσᾰξ saûsax | σαῡ́σᾰκε saū́sake | σαῡ́σᾰκες saū́sakes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- σαῦσαξ 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