σφυρόν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Conventionally connected with *sperH-, although Pre-Greek, according to Beekes.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spʰy.rón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spʰyˈron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sɸyˈron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sfyˈron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sfiˈron/
Noun
σφῠρόν • (sphurón) n (genitive σφῠροῦ); second declension
- (anatomy) ankle
- lower part or edge, foothills of mountains
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ σφῠρόν; τοῦ σφῠροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σφῠρόν tò sphurón | τὼ σφῠρώ tṑ sphurṓ | τᾰ̀ σφῠρᾰ́ tà sphurá | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σφῠροῦ toû sphuroû | τοῖν σφῠροῖν toîn sphuroîn | τῶν σφῠρῶν tôn sphurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σφῠρῷ tôi sphurôi | τοῖν σφῠροῖν toîn sphuroîn | τοῖς σφῠροῖς toîs sphuroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σφῠρόν tò sphurón | τὼ σφῠρώ tṑ sphurṓ | τᾰ̀ σφῠρᾰ́ tà sphurá | ||||||||||
Vocative | σφῠρόν sphurón | σφῠρώ sphurṓ | σφῠρᾰ́ sphurá | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἐπισφύρια (episphúria)
- σφυρόομαι (sphuróomai)
- σφυρωτήρ (sphurōtḗr)
- τανύσφυρος (tanúsphuros)
Further reading
- σφυρόν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σφυρόν 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