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单词 σκυτάλη
释义

σκυτάλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • σκύταλον (skútalon)

Etymology

The origin is unknown.

Pronunciation

 
  • (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sky.tá.lɛː/
  • (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skyˈta.le̝/
  • (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /scyˈta.li/
  • (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /scyˈta.li/
  • (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sciˈta.li/

Noun

σκῠτάλη (skutálē) f (genitive σκῠτάλης); first declension

  1. A staff, a cudgel, a club
  2. A baton used in Sparta as a cypher for writing dispatches
  3. A pole or staff like those of a sedan chair
  4. A strickle for levelling grain
  5. A wooden tally or ticket on a money bag
  6. A rod of metal or ivory
  7. A scourge whip
  8. A handle or lever in a machine
  9. A handspike for turning a wheel
  10. A sucker from a stem
  11. A serpent of uniform roundness and thickness
  12. (anatomy) A phalanx

Inflection

Derived terms

  • σκυταλίας (skutalías)
  • σκυτάλιον (skutálion)
  • σκυταλίς (skutalís)
  • σκυταλισμός (skutalismós)
  • σκυταλόομαι (skutalóomai)
  • σκυτάλωσις (skutálōsis)
  • σκυταλωτός (skutalōtós)

Descendants

  • Latin: scytalē

Further reading

  • σκυτάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • σκυτάλη 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

Greek

Noun

σκυτάλη (skytáli) f (plural σκυτάλες)

  1. (athletics) baton (used in relay races)
  2. (ancient history) stick used for carrying messages in ancient Sparta

Declension

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