σίδη

See also: Σίδη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • σίβδη (síbdē), ξίμβᾱ (xímbā), ῥίμβᾱ (rhímbā), σίβδᾱ (síbdā), σίδᾱ (sídā), σιδέᾱ (sidéā), σίλβᾱ (sílbā)

Etymology

According to Furnée, all the variations prove a Pre-Greek origin, after Witczak specifically borrowed from Western Anatolian. Also passed as far as Albanian shegë, to which the form κυσήγη (kusḗgē) once mentioned without contextualization is in any case ancestral. Linked to the reconstruction *sida "red", which has also been suggested as the root of σίδηρος (sídēros), "iron."

Pronunciation
 

Noun

σίδη • (sídē) f (genitive σῑ́δης); first declension

  1. pomegranate (tree and fruit)
    Synonym: ῥόα (rhóa)
  2. kind of waterplant growing near Orchomenus, water lily

Inflection
First declension of ἡ σῑ́δη; τῆς σῑ́δης (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ σῑ́δη
hē sī́dē		 τὼ σῑ́δᾱ
tṑ sī́dā		 αἱ σῖδαι
hai sîdai
Genitive τῆς σῑ́δης
tês sī́dēs		 τοῖν σῑ́δαιν
toîn sī́dain		 τῶν σῑδῶν
tôn sīdôn
Dative τῇ σῑ́δῃ
têi sī́dēi		 τοῖν σῑ́δαιν
toîn sī́dain		 ταῖς σῑ́δαις
taîs sī́dais
Accusative τὴν σῑ́δην
tḕn sī́dēn		 τὼ σῑ́δᾱ
tṑ sī́dā		 τᾱ̀ς σῑ́δᾱς
tā̀s sī́dās
Vocative σῑ́δη
sī́dē		 σῑ́δᾱ
sī́dā		 σῖδαι
sîdai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Cappadocian Greek:
    Sinasos: σίτη (síti)
    Pharasa: σίδι (sídi)
  • Pontic Greek: σίδη (sídi), σίλβᾰ (sílvᾰ)
  • → Italian:
    Salentian: sída, síta, sèta
    Tarentian: sèta
    Old Barese: sede, seida
    Barese: sétə, saitə, sèitə

Further reading
  • “σίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “σίδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • σίδη 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
  • Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz, Zadka, Małgorzata (2014) “Ancient greek σίδη as a borrowing from a Pre-Greek substratum / On the Anatolian origin of Ancient Greek σίδη”, in Graeco-Latina Brunensia, volume 19, numbers 1–2, pages 113–126 and 131–139
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