σκῶλος
See also: Σκῶλος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σκῶλον (skôlon)
Etymology
The word resembles σκόλοψ (skólops, “palisade”) and, outside Greek, Albanian hell (“icicle; skewer”), Lithuanian kuõlas (“pole”) and Proto-Slavic *kolъ (“stake”). Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to hew”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skɔ̂ː.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsko.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsko.los/
Noun
σκῶλος • (skôlos) m (genitive σκώλου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σκῶλος ho skôlos |
τὼ σκώλω tṑ skṓlō |
οἱ σκῶλοι hoi skôloi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σκώλου toû skṓlou |
τοῖν σκώλοιν toîn skṓloin |
τῶν σκώλων tôn skṓlōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σκώλῳ tōî skṓlōi |
τοῖν σκώλοιν toîn skṓloin |
τοῖς σκώλοις toîs skṓlois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σκῶλον tòn skôlon |
τὼ σκώλω tṑ skṓlō |
τοὺς σκώλους toùs skṓlous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκῶλε skôle |
σκώλω skṓlō |
σκῶλοι skôloi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σκωλοβᾰ́της (skōlobắtēs)
- σκωλοβᾰτῐ́ζω (skōlobătĭ́zō)
Further reading
- “σκῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σκῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σκῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σκῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σκῶλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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