σίττη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἵττα (hítta), σῐ́ττος (sĭ́ttos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of onomatopoeic origin but Furnée links the word with ψίττακος (psíttakos, “parrot”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sít.tɛː/ → /ˈsit.ti/ → /ˈsi.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sít.tɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.te̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsit.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ti/

Noun

σῐ́ττη • (sĭ́ttē) f (genitive σῐ́ττης); first declension

1. nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σῐ́ττη; τῆς σῐ́ττης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σῐ́ττη hē sĭ́ttē	τὼ σῐ́ττᾱ tṑ sĭ́ttā	αἱ σῐ́τται hai sĭ́ttai
Genitive	τῆς σῐ́ττης tês sĭ́ttēs	τοῖν σῐ́τταιν toîn sĭ́ttain	τῶν σῐττῶν tôn sĭttôn
Dative	τῇ σῐ́ττῃ tēî sĭ́ttēi	τοῖν σῐ́τταιν toîn sĭ́ttain	ταῖς σῐ́τταις taîs sĭ́ttais
Accusative	τὴν σῐ́ττην tḕn sĭ́ttēn	τὼ σῐ́ττᾱ tṑ sĭ́ttā	τᾱ̀ς σῐ́ττᾱς tā̀s sĭ́ttās
Vocative	σῐ́ττη sĭ́ttē	σῐ́ττᾱ sĭ́ttā	σῐ́τται sĭ́ttai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Sitta

Further reading

• “σίττη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίττη in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN