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Ancient Greek
Etymology
In mid-20th century thought from Demotic snwpt,[1] but Beekes 2010 considers it Pre-Greek,[2] and related to νᾶπῠ (nâpŭ, “mustard”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sí.naː.pi/ → /ˈsi.na.pi/ → /ˈsi.na.pi/
Noun
σῐ́νᾱπῐ • (sĭ́nāpĭ) n (genitive σῐνᾱ́πεως); third declension
- the mustard plant (Sinapis alba)
Declension
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Descendants
References
- ^ Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2014) Stefan Norbruis, editor, Pre-Greek: Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 43
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σίνᾱπι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1333
Further reading
- “σίναπι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίναπι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4615 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- “σίναπι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011