σκαλίδρις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- καλίδρις (kalídris), κανδρίς (kandrís), σκαλίδρες (skalídres)
Etymology
According to Beekes, the variation σκ-/κ- may point to Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ska.lí.dris/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skaˈli.dris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skaˈli.ðris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /skaˈli.ðris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /skaˈli.ðris/
Noun
σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς • (skalídris) f (genitive σκᾰλῐ́δρεως); third declension
- kind of speckled waterbird
Declension
Third declension of ἡ σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς; τῆς σκᾰλῐ́δρεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς hē skalídris | τὼ σκᾰλῐ́δρει tṑ skalídrei | αἱ σκᾰλῐ́δρεις hai skalídreis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκᾰλῐ́δρεως tês skalídreōs | τοῖν σκᾰλῐδρέοιν toîn skalidréoin | τῶν σκᾰλῐ́δρεων tôn skalídreōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκᾰλῐ́δρει têi skalídrei | σκᾰλῐδρέοιν skalidréoin | ταῖς σκᾰλῐ́δρεσῐ / σκᾰλῐ́δρεσῐν taîs skalídresi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκᾰλῐ́δρῐν tḕn skalídrin | σκᾰλῐ́δρει skalídrei | τᾱ̀ς σκᾰλῐ́δρεις tā̀s skalídreis | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκᾰλῐ́δρῐ skalídri | σκᾰλῐ́δρει skalídrei | σκᾰλῐ́δρεις skalídreis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Translingual: Calidris
Further reading
- σκαλίδρις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκαλίδρις 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