σκέλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *skélos (“curve, bending”), from *(s)kel- (“to curve, bend”).[1]
Possibly related are σκελίς (skelís), σχελίς (skhelís, “rib(s) (of beef)”), but these may instead be from *(s)kelH- (“to cut, carve, split”) (cf. σκάλλω (skállō), σκύλλω (skúllō)), or Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ské.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈske.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsce.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsce.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsce.los/
Noun
σκέλος • (skélos) n (genitive σκέλεος); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σκέλος tò skélos |
τὼ σκέλει tṑ skélei |
τᾰ̀ σκέλη tằ skélē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σκέλους toû skélous |
τοῖν σκελοῖν toîn skeloîn |
τῶν σκελῶν tôn skelôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σκέλει tōî skélei |
τοῖν σκελοῖν toîn skeloîn |
τοῖς σκέλεσῐ / σκέλεσῐν toîs skélesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σκέλος tò skélos |
τὼ σκέλει tṑ skélei |
τᾰ̀ σκέλη tằ skélē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκέλος skélos |
σκέλει skélei |
σκέλη skélē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰσοσκελής (isoskelḗs)
- τετρασκελής (tetraskelḗs)
- τετρασκέλιον (tetraskélion)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκέλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1346
Further reading
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “σκέλος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 723–724
- “σκέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκέλος 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
- σκέλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4628 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 484
- σκέλος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsce.los/
Noun
σκέλος • (skélos) n
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | σκέλος (skélos) | σκέλη (skéli) |
| genitive | σκέλους (skélous) | σκελών (skelón) |
| accusative | σκέλος (skélos) | σκέλη (skéli) |
| vocative | σκέλος (skélos) | σκέλη (skéli) |
Also σκέλια, colloquial nominative plural for legs.
Further reading
- σκέλος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language