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σάπφειρος
σάπφειρος
Ancient Greek
- (4th AD Koine) IPA(key): /sápɸiros/
- (10th AD Byzantine) IPA(key): /sápfiros/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sápfiɾos/
Noun
σάπφειρος • (sáppheiros) f (genitive σαπφείρου); second declension
Inflection
Second declension of σάπφειρος, σαπφείρου
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σάπφειρος | τὼ σαπφείρω | αἱ σάπφειροι |
| Genitive | τῆς σαπφείρου | τοῖν σαπφείροιν | τῶν σαπφείρων |
| Dative | τῇ σαπφείρῳ | τοῖν σαπφείροιν | ταῖς σαπφείροις |
| Accusative | τὴν σάπφειρον | τὼ σαπφείρω | τὰς σαπφείρους |
| Vocative | σάπφειρε | σαπφείρω | σάπφειροι |
Descendants
- Aragonese: zafir
- Azeri: sapfir
- Basque: zafiro
- Belarusian: сапфір (sapfir)
- Bulgarian: сапфир (sapfir)
- Catalan: safir
- Czech: safír
- Danish: safir
- Dutch: saffier
- English: sapphire
- Esperanto: safiro
- Estonian: safiir
- Finnish: safiiri
- French: saphir
- Georgian: საფირონი (sapironi)
- German: Saphir
- Greek: ζαφείρι (zafeíri)
- Ido: safiro
- Indonesian: safir
- Irish: saifír
- Italian: zaffiro
- Japanese: サファイア (safaia)
- Kazakh: Сапфир (Sapfïr)
- Korean: 사파이어 (sapaieo)
- Latin: sapphirus
- Latvian: safīrs
- Lithuanian: safyras
- Middle English: safir
- Norwegian: safir
- Polish: szafir
- Portuguese: safira
- Romanian: safir
- Russian: сапфир (sapfir)
- Sakha: сапфир (sapfir)
- Slovak: zafír
- Slovene: safir
- Spanish: zafiro
- Swedish: safir
- Turkish: safir
- Ukrainian: сапфір (sapfir)
- Vietnamese: xa-phia
References
- σάπφειρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «σάπφειρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “G4552”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979