σκοίκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Pre-Greek and related to κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skǒi̯.ki.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsky.ki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈscy.ci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈscy.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsci.ci.on/
Noun
σκοίκιον • (skoíkion) n (genitive σκοικίου); second declension
- vessel or receptacle of some kind
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ σκοίκιον tò skoíkion |
τὼ σκοικίω tṑ skoikíō |
τᾰ̀ σκοίκιᾰ tằ skoíkiă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σκοικίου toû skoikíou |
τοῖν σκοικίοιν toîn skoikíoin |
τῶν σκοικίων tôn skoikíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σκοικίῳ tōî skoikíōi |
τοῖν σκοικίοιν toîn skoikíoin |
τοῖς σκοικίοις toîs skoikíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ σκοίκιον tò skoíkion |
τὼ σκοικίω tṑ skoikíō |
τᾰ̀ σκοίκιᾰ tằ skoíkiă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκοίκιον skoíkion |
σκοικίω skoikíō |
σκοίκιᾰ skoíkiă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “σκοίκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκοίκιον 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