σέλινον

See also: selinon

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek.[1] Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀮𐀪𐀜 (se-ri-no).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

σέλῑνον • (sélīnon) n (genitive σελῑ́νου); second declension

  1. celery

Declension
Second declension of τὸ σέλῑνον; τοῦ σελῑ́νου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ σέλῑνον
tò sélīnon		 τὼ σελῑ́νω
tṑ selī́nō		 τᾰ̀ σέλῑνᾰ
tà sélīna
Genitive τοῦ σελῑ́νου
toû selī́nou		 τοῖν σελῑ́νοιν
toîn selī́noin		 τῶν σελῑ́νων
tôn selī́nōn
Dative τῷ σελῑ́νῳ
tôi selī́nōi		 τοῖν σελῑ́νοιν
toîn selī́noin		 τοῖς σελῑ́νοις
toîs selī́nois
Accusative τὸ σέλῑνον
tò sélīnon		 τὼ σελῑ́νω
tṑ selī́nō		 τᾰ̀ σέλῑνᾰ
tà sélīna
Vocative σέλῑνον
sélīnon		 σελῑ́νω
selī́nō		 σέλῑνᾰ
sélīna
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: σέλινο (sélino)
    • → Albanian: selino
  • → Ge'ez: ሲላን (silan), ሲለን (silän), ስለን (səlän)
  • → Late Latin: selīnon
    • → Catalan: selí
    • → French: sélin
    • Italian: sellero (Probably North Italy)
    • Ligurian: sélou
    • Lombard: seller, sèlen; selleri (plural)
      • → French: céleri (see there for further descendants)
    • Piedmontese: séler, sélen, séleri
  • → Romanian: țelină (also influenced by Slavic)

References
  1. 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, page 1319

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