σκόλιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from σκολιός (skoliós, “crooked”), because of the crooked order of the singers. Another theory derives the word from δύσκολος (dúskolos, “troublesome, difficult”), because it was said that the songs were easy, but appeared difficult to drunken revellers.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skó.li.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsko.li.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.li.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsko.li.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsko.li.on/
Noun
σκόλῐον • (skólion) n (genitive σκολῐ́ου); second declension
- song which went round crookedly at banquets, being sung to the lyre by the guests one after another in irregular order
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ σκόλῐον; τοῦ σκολῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σκόλῐον tò skólion | τὼ σκολῐ́ω tṑ skolíō | τᾰ̀ σκόλῐᾰ tà skólia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκολῐ́ου toû skolíou | τοῖν σκολῐ́οιν toîn skolíoin | τῶν σκολῐ́ων tôn skolíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκολῐ́ῳ tôi skolíōi | σκολῐ́οιν skolíoin | τοῖς σκολῐ́οις toîs skolíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σκόλῐον tò skólion | σκολῐ́ω skolíō | τᾰ̀ σκόλῐᾰ tà skólia | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκόλῐον skólion | σκολῐ́ω skolíō | σκόλῐᾰ skólia | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: skolion
Further reading
- σκόλιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκόλιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σκόλιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette