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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σῆμᾰ (sêma, “mark, sign”) + -είᾱ (-eíā).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛː.měː.aː/ → /siˈmi.a/ → /siˈmi.a/
Noun
σημείᾱ • (sēmeíā) f (genitive σημείᾱς); first declension
- a military standard, an ensign, a signum militare
46 CE – 120 CE,
Plutarch,
Fabius Maximus 13:
- προελθόντος δὲ τοῦ Φαβίου, θέμενος ἔμπροσθεν τὰς σημαίας, αὐτὸς μὲν ἐκεῖνον πατέρα μεγάλῃ φωνῇ, οἱ δὲ στρατιῶται τοὺς στρατιώτας πάτρωνας ἠσπάζοντο· τοῦτο δ’ ἔστι τοῖς ἀπελευθέροις προσφώνημα πρὸς τοὺς ἀπελευθερώσαντας.
- proelthóntos dè toû Phabíou, thémenos émprosthen tàs sēmaías, autòs mèn ekeînon patéra megálēi phōnêi, hoi dè stratiôtai toùs stratiṓtas pátrōnas ēspázonto; toûto d’ ésti toîs apeleuthérois prosphṓnēma pròs toùs apeleutherṓsantas.
Mon.Anc. 15.23
Mon.Anc. 16.3
- a military standard as a decoration, translating the Latin vēxillum
C.E. 1st century,
Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae 560.13, (from Tlos)
- a body of troops under one standard, translating the Latin manipulus
- Synonyms: σημεῖον n (sēmeîon), σπεῖρᾰ f (speîra)
2nd century BCE,
UPZ 14.23
2nd century BCE,
Sammelb. 1436.10
- an image of the Emperor on a standard, translating the Latin signum
- a (heraldic) device or bearing on an ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield”)
- Synonym: σῆμᾰ n (sêma)
- (meaning uncertain) perhaps a milestone
- Synonym: σημεῖον n (sēmeîon)
Declension
Quotations
2nd century BCE,
UPZ 18.5
C.E. 2nd century,
Abh.Berl.Akad. 1932.5.41, (from Pergamum)
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “σημεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σημαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σημαία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σημαία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σημαία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σημεία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siˈmi.a/
- Hyphenation: ση‧μεί‧α
Noun
σημεία • (simeía) n
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of σημείο (simeío)