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ψάμμος
ψάμμος
Ancient Greek
Noun
ψάμμος • (psámmos) f, m (genitive ψάμμου); second declension
- sand
- something worthless
- metallic ore used by alchemists
- desert
Usage notes
- Normally feminine, sometimes masculine.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ψάμμος | τὼ ψάμμω | οἱ, αἱ ψάμμοι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς ψάμμου | τοῖν ψάμμοιν | τῶν ψάμμων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ ψάμμῳ | τοῖν ψάμμοιν | τοῖς, ταῖς ψάμμοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν ψάμμον | τὼ ψάμμω | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ψάμμους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ψάμμε | ψάμμω | ψάμμοι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- ψάμμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ψάμμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ψάμμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ψάμμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ψάμμος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ψάμμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill