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Σφίγξ
Σφίγξ
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Φῑ́ξ (Phī́x) Boeotian
Proper noun
Σφῐ́γξ • (Sphínx) f (genitive Σφῐγγός); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Σφῐ́γξ | τὼ Σφῐ́γγε | αἱ Σφῐ́γγες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Σφῐγγός | τοῖν Σφῐγγοῖν | τῶν Σφῐγγῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Σφῐγγῐ́ | τοῖν Σφῐγγοῖν | ταῖς Σφῐγξῐ́ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Σφῐ́γγᾰ | τὼ Σφῐ́γγε | τᾱ̀ς Σφῐ́γγᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Σφῐ́γξ | Σφῐ́γγε | Σφῐ́γγες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Bulgarian: Сфинкс (Sfinks)
- Catalan: Esfinx
- Czech: Sfinx
- Danish: Sfinks
- Dutch: Sfinx
- English: Sphinx
- Estonian: Sphinx
- Finnish: Sfinksi
- French: Sphinx
- German: Sphinx
- Greek:
- Σφιγξ (Sfinx)
- Σφίγγα (Sfínga)
- Hebrew: ספינקס (Sfinqs)
- Hungarian: Szfinx
- Indonesian: Sphinx
- Italian: Sfinge
- Japanese: スフィンクス (Sufinkusu)
- Korean: 스핑크스 (seupingkeuseu)
- Latin: Sphinx
- Lithuanian: Sfinksas
- Manx: Sphinx
- Norwegian: Sfinks
- Ossetian: Сфинкс (Sfinks) (Sfinks)
- Polish: Sfinks
- Portuguese: Esfinge
- Romanian: Sfinx
- Russian: Сфинкс (Sfinks)
- Serbo-Croatian: Сфинга, Sfinga
- Spanish: Esfinge
- Swedish: Sfinx
- Thai: สฟิงซ์ (sà-fíng)
- Ukrainian: Сфінкс (Sfinks)
- Yiddish: ספֿינקס (sfinks)
References
- Σφίγξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025