σάββατον

Ancient Greek

Etimologija

Borrowed from Hebrejski שַׁבָּת‎ (šabbāṯ, “sabbath”).

Pronunciation

 

• MFA^(ključ): /ˈsaβ.βa.ton/ → /ˈsa.va.ton/

(1^st CE Egyptian) MFA^(ključ): /ˈsab.ba.ton/

(4^th CE Koine) MFA^(ključ): /ˈsaβ.βa.ton/

(10^th CE Byzantine) MFA^(ključ): /ˈsav.va.ton/

(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) MFA^(ključ): /ˈsa.va.ton/

Noun

σάββατον (sábbaton)

1. Sabbath

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σάββατον; τοῦ σαββάτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σάββατον tò sábbaton	τᾰ̀ σάββατᾰ tà sábbata
Genitive	τοῦ σαββάτου toû sabbátou	τῶν σαββάτων tôn sabbátōn
Dative	τῷ σαββάτῳ tôi sabbátōi	τοῖς σάββασῐ(ν) / σαββάτοις toîs sábbasi(n) / sabbátois
Accusative	τὸ σάββατον tò sábbaton	τᾰ̀ σάββατᾰ tà sábbata
Vocative	σάββατον sábbaton	σάββατᾰ sábbata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲟⲛ (sabbaton)
• → Esperanto: sabato
  • Ido: sabato
• Grčki: Σάββατο (Sávvato)
• → Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉 (sabbatō), *𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌱𐌰𐍄𐍉 (*sambatō)
  • → Old High German: sambaztag
    • Middle High German: sameztac, samztac
      • Nemački: Samstag
• → Latinski: sabbatum (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: սաբատ (sabat), սաբբատ (sabbat)

Further reading

• “Σάββατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σάββατον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4521 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979