Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σύρξ ‎(súrx) (Aeolic)

Noun

σάρξ • ‎(sárx) f ‎(genitive σαρκός); third declension

1. The material which covers the bones of a creature: flesh
2. body
3. the edible flesh of a fruit
4. The seat of animalistic/immoral desires and thoughts, such as lust
5. That which is opposed to the spiritual

Usage notes

Homer uses σάρξ almost entirely in the plural, with the singular usage specifying a specific part of the body. Later writers use the singular without this distinction.

Inflection

Derived terms

• σαρκοφάγος ‎(sarkophágos)
• σαρκάζω ‎(sarkázō)
  • σαρκασμός ‎(sarkasmós)
• σαρκικός ‎(sarkikós)

Descendants

• Greek: σάρκα ‎(sárka, “flesh”), σαρκοφάγος ‎(sarkofágos)

References

• σάρξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σάρξ» 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
• «σάρξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4561”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • carrion idem, page 115.
  • flesh idem, page 327.
• The PIE root *tu̯erk̑-.