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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The variant could be an artificial Atticism or show a Pre-Greek alternation σ-/τ-. The form semantically and formally resembles σέρφος (sérphos, “small winged insect”), while Furnée connects Latin delpa (“kind of insect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /síl.pʰɛː/ → /ˈsil.ɸi/ → /ˈsil.fi/
Noun
σῐ́λφη • (sílphē) f (genitive σῐ́λφης); first declension
- cockroach (Blattella germanica)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “σίλφη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίλφη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σίλφη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1332