σάπφειρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Semitic; compare Hebrew סַפִּיר (sappîr).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sápʰ.pʰeː.ros/ → /ˈsap.ɸi.ros/ → /ˈsap.fi.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sápʰ.pʰeː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsap.pʰi.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsap.ɸi.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsap.fi.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsap.fi.ros/

Noun

σάπφειρος • (sáppheiros) f (genitive σαπφείρου); second declension

1. sapphire

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σάπφειρος hē sáppheiros	τὼ σαπφείρω tṑ sappheírō	αἱ σάπφειροι hai sáppheiroi
Genitive	τῆς σαπφείρου tês sappheírou	τοῖν σαπφείροιν toîn sappheíroin	τῶν σαπφείρων tôn sappheírōn
Dative	τῇ σαπφείρῳ têi sappheírōi	τοῖν σαπφείροιν toîn sappheíroin	ταῖς σαπφείροις taîs sappheírois
Accusative	τὴν σάπφειρον tḕn sáppheiron	τὼ σαπφείρω tṑ sappheírō	τᾱ̀ς σαπφείρους tā̀s sappheírous
Vocative	σάπφειρε sáppheire	σαπφείρω sappheírō	σάπφειροι sáppheiroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ἡ σάπφειρος; τῆς σαπφείρου (Attic)

Derived terms

• σαπφείρινος (sappheírinos)
• σαπφείριον (sappheírion)

 

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: saffier
• → Aragonese: zafir
• → Azerbaijani: sapfir
• → Basque: zafiro
• → Belarusian: сапфір (sapfir)
• → Bulgarian: сапфир (sapfir)
• → Catalan: safir
• → Chichewa: safiro
• → Czech: safír
• → Danish: safir
• → Dutch: saffier
• → English: sapphire
• → Esperanto: safiro
• → Estonian: safiir
• → Fijian: safairi
• → Finnish: safiiri
• → German: Saphir
• → Hausa: saffir
• → Hawaiian: sapeira
• → Hungarian: zafír
• → Icelandic: safír
• → Ido: safiro
• → Indonesian: safir
• → Irish: saifír
• → Japanese: サファイア (safaia)
• → Javanese: safir
• → Kazakh: сапфир (sapfir)
• → Korean: 사파이어 (sapaieo)
• → Latin: sapphirus, sappīrus (Classical Latin), sapphir, sappir
  • French: saphir
    • → Romanian: safir n
    • → Turkish: safir
  • Italian: zaffiro
    • → Greek: ζαφείρι (zafeíri)
  • Spanish: zafiro
• → Latvian: safīrs
• → Lithuanian: safyras
• → Malagasy: safira
• → Maori: hapaira
• → Maltese: żaffir
• → Middle English: safir
• → Norwegian Bokmål: safir
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: safir
• → Old Georgian: საფირონი (sapironi), საპფირონი (saṗpironi)
  • Georgian: საფირონი (sapironi)
• → Polish: szafir
• → Portuguese: safira f
• → Russian: сапфи́р (sapfír)
• → Rwanda-Rundi: safiro
• → Samoan: safaira
• → Shona: safiri
• → Slovak: zafír
• → Slovene: safir
• → Somali: safayr
• → Sotho: safire|
• → Sundanese: sapir
• → Swedish: safir
• → Tahitian: safaia
• → Tajik: сапфир (sapfir)
• → Tongan: safaili
• → Ukrainian: сапфір (sapfir)
• → Uzbek: sapfir
• → Vietnamese: xa-phia
• → Welsh: saffir
• → West Frisian: saffier
• → Xhosa: isafire
• → Yakut: сапфир (sapfir)
• → Zulu: isafire

Further reading

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible