Σελινοῦς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”) +‎ -οῦς (-oûs, “-ful”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Σελῑνοῦς • (Selīnoûs) m (genitive Σελῑνοῦντος); third declension

  1. Selinus; Selinunte, Sicily, Italy

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Σελῑνοῦς; τοῦ Σελῑνοῦντος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Σελῑνοῦς
ho Selīnoûs
Genitive τοῦ Σελῑνοῦντος
toû Selīnoûntos
Dative τῷ Σελῑνοῦντῐ
tôi Selīnoûnti
Accusative τὸν Σελῑνοῦντᾰ
tòn Selīnoûnta
Vocative Σελῑνοῦν
Selīnoûn
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Σελινούντιος (Selinoúntios)

Descendants
  • Catalan: Selinunt
  • French: Sélinonte
  • Greek: Σελινούς (Selinoús); Σελινούντας (Selinoúntas)
  • Italian: Selinunte
  • Latin: Selinus
  • Sicilian: Silinunti
  • Spanish: Selinunte

References
  • “Σελινοῦς”, 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
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