σίκερα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the Septuagint rendition of Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār), used to refer to strong drinks, from Proto-Semitic *šikar- (“alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ke.ra/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/

Noun

σίκερα • (síkera) n (indeclinable)

A fermented liquor, a strong drink

Descendants

→ Latin: sīcera
- → Middle English: ciser, siser, cisar, seser, cyser, sicer, syser, cisere
  - → English: cyser
- Old French: cisdre, sidre
  - → Breton: sistr
  - French: cidre
    - → German: Cidre
    - → Polish: cydr
    - → Romanian: cidru
    - → Russian: сидр (sidr)
    - → Ukrainian: сидр (sydr)
  - → Middle Dutch: sider
    - Dutch: cider
  - → Middle English: sider, sedyr, cedyr, sydyr, cidre, sidre, syder, sydur, siþer, sythere, sydir, sidur, sithir, cyther, cyder
    - English: cider
      - → Bulgarian: са́йдер (sájder)
      - → Finnish: siideri
      - → Jersey Dutch: sâiter
      - → Japanese: サイダー (saidā)
      - → Korean: 사이다 (saida)
    - Scots: cedar (obsolete)
    - → Welsh: seidr
  - → Galician: sidra
  - → Spanish: sidra
    - → Catalan: sidra
    - → Tagalog: sidra
  - → Italian: sidro.

Further reading

“σίκερα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σίκερα 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

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