σκᾶπος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σκάπος (skápos) — alternative reading

Etymology

Akin to σκῆπτρον (skêptron), σκᾶπτον (skâpton, “staff, scepter”). Compare also σκηπάνη (skēpánē), σκηπάνιον (skēpánion, “stick, scepter”), σκαπάνιον (skapánion, “staff, crutch”), and Latin scāpus, Albanian shkop.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skâː.pos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/

Noun

σκᾶπος • (skâpos) m (hapax legomenon)

branch; name of a certain wind
Synonym: κλάδος (kládos)
- [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ.857:
  σκάπος· κλάδος. καὶ ἄνεμος ποιός
  skápos; kládos. kaì ánemos poiós
  skápos: branch. and a certain wind]

References

“σκᾶπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκήπτομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1350