Σαπφώ

Ancient Greek
Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ)

Alternative forms
  • Ψάπφω (Psápphō) — Aeolic
  • Σάφφω (Sáphphō)

Etymology

According to Beekes, maybe from Pre-Greek due to the presence of the cluster "-πφ-".

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Σαπφώ • (Sapphṓ) f (genitive Σαπφοῦς); third declension

  1. Sappho

Inflection
Third declension of ἡ Σαπφώ; τῆς Σαπφοῦς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Σαπφώ
hē Sapphṓ
Genitive τῆς Σαπφοῦς
tês Sapphoûs
Dative τῇ Σαπφοῖ
têi Sapphoî
Accusative τὴν Σαπφώ
tḕn Sapphṓ
Vocative Σαπφοῖ
Sapphoî
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Arabic: صَافُو (ṣāfū)
  • → Asturian: Safo
  • → Basque: Safo
  • → Breton: Sapfo
  • → Bulgarian: Сафо (Safo)
  • → Catalan: Safo
  • → Czech: Sapfó
  • → Danish: Sapfo
  • → Dutch: Sappho
  • → English: Sappho
  • → Estonian: Sappho
  • → Finnish: Sapfo
  • → French: Sappho
  • → Galician: Safo
  • → German: Sappho
  • → Low German: Sappho
  • Greek: Σαπφώ (Sapfó)
  • → Hebrew: סאפפו
  • → Hungarian: Szapphó
  • → Icelandic: Saffó
  • → Italian: Saffo
  • → Japanese: サッポー (Sappō)
  • → Latin: Sappho
  • → Latvian: Sapfo
  • → Lithuanian: Sapfo
  • → Mongolian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
  • → Norwegian: Sapfo
  • → Piedmontese: Safo
  • → Polish: Safona
  • → Portuguese: Safo
  • → Romanian: Sappho
  • → Russian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: Sappho
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Сапфа/Sapfa, Sappho
  • → Slovak: Sapfó
  • → Slovene: Sapfo
  • → Spanish: Safo
  • → Swedish: Sapfo
  • → Turkish: Sappho
  • → Ukrainian: Сапфо (Sapfo)
  • → Vietnamese: Sappho

References
  • “Σαπφώ”, 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 1,024
  • 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
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