σκαλίας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Frisk connects the word with Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“shell”) but Furnée rather adduces ἀσκαλία (askalía) and ἀσκάληρον (askálēron), which would point to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ska.lí.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skaˈli.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skaˈli.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /skaˈli.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /skaˈli.as/
Noun
σκᾰλίᾱς • (skalíās) m (genitive σκᾰλίου); first declension
- (botany) fruit shell of the artichoke
Declension
First declension of ὁ σκᾰλίᾱς; τοῦ σκᾰλίου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σκᾰλίᾱς ho skalíās | τὼ σκᾰλίᾱ tṑ skalíā | οἱ σκᾰλίαι hoi skalíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκᾰλίου toû skalíou | τοῖν σκᾰλίαιν toîn skalíain | τῶν σκᾰλιῶν tôn skaliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκᾰλίᾳ tôi skalíāi | τοῖν σκᾰλίαιν toîn skalíain | τοῖς σκᾰλίαις toîs skalíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σκᾰλίᾱν tòn skalíān | τὼ σκᾰλίᾱ tṑ skalíā | τοὺς σκᾰλίᾱς toùs skalíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκᾰλίᾱ skalíā | σκᾰλίᾱ skalíā | σκᾰλίαι skalíai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- σκαλίας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκαλίας 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