σκεῦος
See also: σκεύος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew- (“to perform, commit or to cut, hew, equip”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hawjaną, Proto-Slavic *kutiti.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skêu̯.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈske.wos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsce.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsce.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsce.vos/
Noun
σκεῦος • (skeûos) n (genitive σκεύους); third declension
- a vessel, implement
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 402
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.128
- 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 983
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 596B
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373A
- (in the plural) outfit, gear, utensils, chattels, equipment, baggage, luggage, tackle
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1318
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes 31
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 552
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.13
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.17.3
- 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Stones 42
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.31
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.55
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 12.15
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.13.6
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.17
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 117D
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 183E
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 8.11
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 46.1
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 19
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 27:17
- an inanimate object, a thing
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 601D
- 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 506D
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 159
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1407B.8
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 13.5.7
- 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 15.25.1
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 9:15
- the body, as the vessel of the soul
- 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 4:7
- New Testament, First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:4
- New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 3:7
- genitalia
- 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 17.11
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ σκεῦος; τοῦ σκεύους (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σκεῦος tò skeûos | τὼ σκεύει tṑ skeúei | τᾰ̀ σκεύη tà skeúē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκεύους toû skeúous | τοῖν σκευοῖν toîn skeuoîn | τῶν σκευῶν tôn skeuôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκεύει tôi skeúei | τοῖν σκευοῖν toîn skeuoîn | τοῖς σκεύεσῐ / σκεύεσῐν toîs skeúesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σκεῦος tò skeûos | τὼ σκεύει tṑ skeúei | τᾰ̀ σκεύη tà skeúē | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκεῦος skeûos | σκεύει skeúei | σκεύη skeúē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σκευαγωγός (skeuagōgós)
- σκευάζω (skeuázō)
- σκευάριον (skeuárion)
- σκευόφορος (skeuóphoros)
- σκευοφύλαξ (skeuophúlax)
- σκευογραφία (skeuographía)
- σκευοποιός (skeuopoiós)
- σκευοπώλης (skeuopṓlēs)
- σκευοθήκη (skeuothḗkē)
- σκευουργία (skeuourgía)
- σκευωρός (skeuōrós)
Related terms
- σκευή (skeuḗ)
Descendants
- → Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐍃 (kas) (semantic loan)
References
- “σκεῦος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκεῦος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4632 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- art idem, page 42.
- article idem, page 42.
- commodity idem, page 148.
- implement idem, page 421.
- thing idem, page 867.
- utensil idem, page 941.
- work idem, page 988.
- 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
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 950–951