σκόλυμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Explained as of Pre-Greek origin. Compare also the Serbo-Croatian skolab, skulob of the same meaning, a term the Slavs could only have picked up, from Liburnian or its Vulgar Latin successor dialect, when reaching the Adriatic coast.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skó.ly.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ly.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ly.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ly.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsko.li.mos/
Noun
σκόλῠμος • (skólŭmos) m or f (genitive σκολῠ́μου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ σκόλῠμος ho, hē skólŭmos |
τὼ σκολῠ́μω tṑ skolŭ́mō |
οἱ, αἱ σκόλῠμοι hoi, hai skólŭmoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς σκολῠ́μου toû, tês skolŭ́mou |
τοῖν σκολῠ́μοιν toîn skolŭ́moin |
τῶν σκολῠ́μων tôn skolŭ́mōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ σκολῠ́μῳ tōî, tēî skolŭ́mōi |
τοῖν σκολῠ́μοιν toîn skolŭ́moin |
τοῖς, ταῖς σκολῠ́μοις toîs, taîs skolŭ́mois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν σκόλῠμον tòn, tḕn skólŭmon |
τὼ σκολῠ́μω tṑ skolŭ́mō |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς σκολῠ́μους toùs, tā̀s skolŭ́mous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκόλῠμε skólŭme |
σκολῠ́μω skolŭ́mō |
σκόλῠμοι skólŭmoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σκολυμώδης (skolumṓdēs)
Descendants
Further reading
- “σκόλυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκόλυμος 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