σαύρα

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Beekes claims a Pre-Greek origin, due to the semantic category of lizards being "local substrate" and not being conceptualized among the Proto-Indo-Europeans.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σαύρᾱ • (saúrā) f (genitive σαύρᾱς); first declension

  1. lizard

Declension

First declension of ἡ σαύρᾱ; τῆς σαύρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ σαύρᾱ
hē saúrā 		τὼ σαύρᾱ
tṑ saúrā 		αἱ σαῦραι
hai saûrai
Genitive τῆς σαύρᾱς
tês saúrās 		τοῖν σαύραιν
toîn saúrain 		τῶν σαυρῶν
tôn saurôn
Dative τῇ σαύρᾳ
têi saúrāi 		τοῖν σαύραιν
toîn saúrain 		ταῖς σαύραις
taîs saúrais
Accusative τὴν σαύρᾱν
tḕn saúrān 		τὼ σαύρᾱ
tṑ saúrā 		τᾱ̀ς σαύρᾱς
tā̀s saúrās
Vocative σαύρᾱ
saúrā 		σαύρᾱ
saúrā 		σαῦραι
saûrai
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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σαύρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1313

Further reading

Greek

Noun

σαύρα • (sávra) f (plural σαύρες)

  1. lizard

Declension

Declension of σαύρα
singular plural
nominative σαύρα • σαύρες •
genitive σαύρας • σαυρών •
accusative σαύρα • σαύρες •
vocative σαύρα • σαύρες •

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