ἀσκητής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀσκέω (askéō) + -τής (-tḗs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.kɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /as.ke̝ˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /as.ciˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /as.ciˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /as.ciˈtis/
Noun
ἀσκητής • (askētḗs) m (genitive ἀσκητοῦ); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἀσκητής ho askētḗs |
τὼ ἀσκητᾱ́ tṑ askētā́ |
οἱ ἀσκηταί hoi askētaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀσκητοῦ toû askētoû |
τοῖν ἀσκηταῖν toîn askētaîn |
τῶν ἀσκητῶν tôn askētôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀσκητῇ tōî askētēî |
τοῖν ἀσκηταῖν toîn askētaîn |
τοῖς ἀσκηταῖς toîs askētaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἀσκητήν tòn askētḗn |
τὼ ἀσκητᾱ́ tṑ askētā́ |
τοὺς ἀσκητᾱ́ς toùs askētā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀσκητᾰ́ askētắ |
ἀσκητᾱ́ askētā́ |
ἀσκηταί askētaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀσκητικός (askētikós)
Descendants
Descendants
- → Albanian: asket
- → Czech: asketa
- → Esperanto: asketo
- → German: Asket
- → Hungarian: aszkéta
- → Late Latin: ascēta
- → Dutch: asceet
- →⇒ Irish: aiséiteach, aiséitiúil
- Italian: asceta
- → Polish: asceta
- Portuguese: asceta
- Spanish: asceta
- → Swedish: asket
- → Macedonian: аскет (asket)
- → Russian: аске́т (askét)
- → Ukrainian: аске́т (askét)
Further reading
- ἀσκητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀσκητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀσκητής, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἀσκητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.