σεμίδαλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Semitic, the same source of Latin simila (“wheat flour”), Arabic سَمِيذ (samīḏ), Aramaic סְמִידָא / ܣܡܻܝܕܳܐ (səmīḏā), from Akkadian 𒆠𒅔𒆠𒅔𒄯𒄯 (/samīdu/, “a type of fine groats, coarse flour, semolina”), related to Akkadian 𒀀𒊏𒄯𒄯 (/samādu/, “to grind fine”). Borrowed through Hittite, where -alla-, -alli- is an adjective formant.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /se.mí.daː.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /seˈmi.da.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /seˈmi.ða.lis/
Noun
σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς • (semídālis) f (genitive σεμῐδᾱ́λῐος or σεμῐδᾱ́λεως); third declension
- the finest wheaten flour
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς; τῆς σεμῐδᾱ́λεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σεμῐ́δᾱλῐς hē semídālis | τὼ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tṑ semidā́lei | αἱ σεμῐδᾱ́λεις hai semidā́leis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σεμῐδᾱ́λεως tês semidā́leōs | τοῖν σεμῐδᾱλέοιν toîn semidāléoin | τῶν σεμῐδᾱ́λεων tôn semidā́leōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σεμῐδᾱ́λει têi semidā́lei | τοῖν σεμῐδᾱλέοιν toîn semidāléoin | ταῖς σεμῐδᾱ́λεσῐ / σεμῐδᾱ́λεσῐν taîs semidā́lesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σεμῐ́δᾱλῐν tḕn semídālin | τὼ σεμῐδᾱ́λει tṑ semidā́lei | τᾱ̀ς σεμῐδᾱ́λεις tā̀s semidā́leis | ||||||||||
Vocative | σεμῐ́δᾱλῐ semídāli | σεμῐδᾱ́λει semidā́lei | σεμῐδᾱ́λεις semidā́leis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σεμιδᾱ́λιον (semidā́lion)
- σεμιδᾱλίτης (semidālítēs)
Descendants
- Greek: σιμιγδάλι (simigdáli)
Further reading
- “σεμίδαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σεμίδαλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σεμίδαλις 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
- Szemerényi, Oswald (1974), “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 94, DOI:, page 156
Greek
Noun
σεμίδαλις • (semídalis) f
- Katharevousa form of σιμιγδάλι (simigdáli, “semolina”)