Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σῑγᾱ́ ‎(sīgā́) Doric

Noun

σῑγή • ‎(sīgḗ) f ‎(genitive σῑγῆς); first declension

1. silence
   1. Dative as adverb: silently
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Cr. 43.b

        Σωκράτης: ἄρτι δὲ ἥκεις ἢ πάλαι;
        Κρίτων: ἐπιεικῶς πάλαι.
        Σωκράτης: εἶτα πῶς οὐκ εὐθὺς ἐπήγειράς με, ἀλλὰ σιγῇ παρακάθησαι;

        Socrates: Did you arrive just now or a while ago?
        Crito: Quite a while ago.
        Socrates: Then why didn't you wake me immediately, instead of sitting by me silently?

2. undertone, whisper

Inflection

References

• σιγή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σιγή» 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
• «σιγή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4602”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hush idem, page 412.
  • peace idem, page 600.
  • quiet idem, page 666.
  • reticence idem, page 706.
  • secrecy idem, page 747.
  • secretiveness idem, page 747.
  • silence idem, page 775.
  • stillness idem, page 817.
  • taciturnity idem, page 851.

Greek

Noun

σιγή • ‎(sigí) f ‎(uncountable)

1. silence, quiet

Declension