σαύη
sauē

Greek noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-07-15
Primary meaning cosmos
Literal translation cosmos
Variants
σαύη sauē restored reading
σάνη sanē rare
Edited by
cosmos cosmological concept, spatial concept

σαυή· ὁ κόσμος. Βαβυλώνιοι

‘sauē: the cosmos. Babylonians.’

— Hesychius σ 260

Genre: lexicon
Provenance: Alexandria
Date: 4th-6th century CE

Hesychius Alexandrinus. 2005. Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon, Vol. 3 (Pi - Sigma), ed. P.A. Hansen. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. 270

In the manuscript, only the reading σάνη is attested.
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). σαύη (Lemma #2250). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2250/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). σαύη (Lemma #2250). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2250/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). σαύη (Lemma #2250). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2250/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) σαύη (Lemma #2250), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2250/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2250,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {σαύη ({Lemma} #2250)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2250/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2250/},
}