σελίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Clearly related to σέλμα (sélma, “deck of a ship”). These words have been compared to Old English selma and syll, and to Old High German swelli, but phonetically this etymology is unconvincing. If the gloss cited by Hesychius ἔλματα (élmata, “planking”) is cognate, then the alternation would point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.lís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈlis/
Noun
σελίς • (selís) f (genitive σελίδος); third declension
- (architecture) crossbeam of stone in ceiling construction
- block or sector of seats in a theater
- rowing bench
- column of writing in a papyrus roll
- writing page
Declension
Third declension of ἡ σελῐ́ς; τῆς σελῐ́δος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σελῐ́ς hē selís | τὼ σελῐ́δε tṑ selíde | αἱ σελῐ́δες hai selídes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σελῐ́δος tês selídos | τοῖν σελῐ́δοιν toîn selídoin | τῶν σελῐ́δων tôn selídōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σελῐ́δῐ têi selídi | τοῖν σελῐ́δοιν toîn selídoin | ταῖς σελῐ́σῐ / σελῐ́σῐν taîs selísi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σελῐ́δᾰ tḕn selída | τὼ σελῐ́δε tṑ selíde | τᾱ̀ς σελῐ́δᾰς tā̀s selídas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σελῐ́ς selís | σελῐ́δε selíde | σελῐ́δες selídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σελιδηφάγος (selidēphágos)
- σελίδιον (selídion)
- σελίδωμα (selídōma)
Descendants
- Greek: σελίδα (selída)
Further reading
- “σελίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σελίς 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