σταφυλή

See also: σταφύλι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • σταφυλίς (staphulís)

Etymology

Though traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to be stiff; post”) (compare Sanskrit स्तम्भ (stambha, “pillar”), Old English stæf (“staff”)) via an assumed intermediate sense “stem”, and according to Beekes the word is clearly Pre-Greek along with the related στέμφυλα (stémphula, “bunch of (pressed) olives or grapes”) and ἀσταφίς (astaphís, “dried grapes”),[1] it must be noted[2] that the usual Avar word for “grape” is цӏибил (cʼibil) and is internally derived in Caucasian.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

σταφυλή • (staphulḗ) f (genitive σταφυλῆς); first declension

  1. bunch of grapes
  2. (anatomy) uvula
    Synonym: γᾰργᾰρεών (gargareṓn)

Declension
First declension of ἡ σταφυλή; τῆς σταφυλῆς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ σταφυλή
hē staphulḗ		 τὼ σταφυλᾱ́
tṑ staphulā́		 αἱ σταφυλαί
hai staphulaí
Genitive τῆς σταφυλῆς
tês staphulês		 τοῖν σταφυλαῖν
toîn staphulaîn		 τῶν σταφυλῶν
tôn staphulôn
Dative τῇ σταφυλῇ
têi staphulêi		 τοῖν σταφυλαῖν
toîn staphulaîn		 ταῖς σταφυλαῖς
taîs staphulaîs
Accusative τὴν σταφυλήν
tḕn staphulḗn		 τὼ σταφυλᾱ́
tṑ staphulā́		 τᾱ̀ς σταφυλᾱ́ς
tā̀s staphulā́s
Vocative σταφυλή
staphulḗ		 σταφυλᾱ́
staphulā́		 σταφυλαί
staphulaí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • ⇒ Byzantine Greek: σταφύλιον (staphúlion)

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σταφυλή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1391–1392
  2. Leschber, Corinna, Bengtson, John D. (2021) “Notes on some Pre-Greek words in relation to Euskaro-Caucasian (North Caucasian + Basque)”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎, volume 19, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 85

Further reading

Greek

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sta.fiˈli/

Noun

σταφυλή • (stafylí) f (plural σταφυλές)

  1. grape
  2. (anatomy) uvula

Declension
declension of σταφυλή
case     \     number singular plural
nominative σταφυλή • σταφυλές •
genitive σταφυλής • σταφυλών •
accusative σταφυλή • σταφυλές •
vocative σταφυλή • σταφυλές •

Synonyms

Further reading
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