σίκερα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the Septuagint rendition of Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār), used to refer to strong drinks, from Proto-Semitic *šikar- (“alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/ → /ˈsi.ce.ra/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ke.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ce.ra/

Noun

σίκερα • (síkera) n (indeclinable)

1. A fermented liquor, a strong drink

Descendants

• → Latin: sīcera
  • → Middle English: ciser, siser, cisar, seser, cyser, sicer, syser, cisere
    • → English: cyser
  • Old French: cisdre, sidre
    • → Breton: sistr
    • French: cidre
      • → German: Cidre
      • → Polish: cydr
      • → Romanian: cidru
      • → Russian: сидр (sidr)
      • → Ukrainian: сидр (sydr)
    • → Middle Dutch: sider
      • Dutch: cider
    • → Middle English: sider, sedyr, cedyr, sydyr, cidre, sidre, syder, sydur, siþer, sythere, sydir, sidur, sithir, cyther, cyder
      • English: cider
        • → Bulgarian: са́йдер (sájder)
        • → Finnish: siideri
        • → Jersey Dutch: sâiter
        • → Japanese: サイダー (saidā)
        • → Korean: 사이다 (saida)
      • Scots: cedar (obsolete)
      • → Welsh: seidr
    • → Galician: sidra
    • → Spanish: sidra
      • → Catalan: sidra
      • → Tagalog: sidra
    • → Italian: sidro.

Further reading

• “σίκερα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίκερα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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