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A technical term, with a formation similar to ἄμβων (ámbōn) and δόλων (dólōn), of uncertain origin.[1] Possibly a non-Indo-European loan of sound-symbolic origin, particularly from a Mediterranean substrate language. Usually connected to Latin tībia (“shinbone; pipe, flute”), also of unclear origin.[2]

• IPA(key): /sǐː.pʰɔːn/ → /ˈsi.ɸon/ → /ˈsi.fon/

• (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sǐː.pʰɔːn/

• (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsi.pʰon/

• (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ɸon/

• (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsi.fon/

• (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.fon/

σῑ́φων • (sī́phōn) m (genitive σῑ́φωνος); third declension

1. tube, pipe
2. siphon, used for drawing wine out of the cask
3. drainage tube for hydrocele
4. service pipe for water in houses
5. waterspout from the gutters of the roof

• σιφωνίζω (siphōnízō)

• σιφώνιον (siphṓnion)

• σιφωνολογία (siphōnología)

• Greek: σίφουνας (sífounas)

• → Latin: siphō

1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σίφων, -ωνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1338
2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tībia”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 619

• “σίφων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σίφων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σίφων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette