σκινδαψός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κῐνδᾰψός (kĭndăpsós)
Etymology
A foreign word like κιθάρα (kithára), βάρβιτος (bárbitos) and many other instrument names. It is of Pre-Greek origin, in view of the interchange σ-/zero.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skin.dap.sós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skin.dapˈsos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /scin.dapˈsos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /scin.dapˈsos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /scin.dapˈsos/
Noun
σκῐνδᾰψός • (skĭndăpsós) m (genitive σκῐνδᾰψοῦ); second declension
- musical instrument with four strings
- word without meaning, so-and-so
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σκῐνδᾰψός ho skĭndăpsós |
τὼ σκῐνδᾰψώ tṑ skĭndăpsṓ |
οἱ σκῐνδᾰψοί hoi skĭndăpsoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σκῐνδᾰψοῦ toû skĭndăpsoû |
τοῖν σκῐνδᾰψοῖν toîn skĭndăpsoîn |
τῶν σκῐνδᾰψῶν tôn skĭndăpsôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σκῐνδᾰψῷ tōî skĭndăpsōî |
τοῖν σκῐνδᾰψοῖν toîn skĭndăpsoîn |
τοῖς σκῐνδᾰψοῖς toîs skĭndăpsoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σκῐνδᾰψόν tòn skĭndăpsón |
τὼ σκῐνδᾰψώ tṑ skĭndăpsṓ |
τοὺς σκῐνδᾰψούς toùs skĭndăpsoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκῐνδᾰψέ skĭndăpsé |
σκῐνδᾰψώ skĭndăpsṓ |
σκῐνδᾰψοί skĭndăpsoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σκῐνδᾰψῐ́ζομαι (skĭndăpsĭ́zomai)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Scindapsus
Further reading
- “σκινδαψός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκινδαψός 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