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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Only attested as a gloss in Hesychius. From σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “suffix forming abstract nouns”), as if from a verb σφηκίζω (sphēkízō, “to buzz like a wasp”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɸi.cizˈmos/ → /sfi.cizˈmos/
Noun
σφηκισμός • (sphēkismós) m (genitive σφηκισμοῦ); second declension
- (music, hapax) a form of playing the aulos with a buzzing timbre
5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ:σφηκισμός· εἶδος αὐλήσεως εἰρημένον ἀπὸ τῆς ἐμφερείας τῶν βομ(β)ῶν- sphēkismós; eîdos aulḗseōs eirēménon apò tês emphereías tôn bom(b)ôn
- sphēkismós: a style of flute-playing, named after its likeness to buzzing sounds
Inflection
Further reading
- “σφηκισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σφηκισμός”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “σφηκισμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ