σκῦρος
See also: Σκῦρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Furnée, from Pre-Greek and related to σκῖρος (skîros, “hardened swelling, tumour”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skŷː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsky.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈscy.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈscy.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsci.ros/
Noun
σκῦρος • (skûros) m (genitive σκύρου); second declension
- chippings of stone used as road metal
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σκῦρος; τοῦ σκῡ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σκῦρος ho skûros | τὼ σκῡ́ρω tṑ skū́rō | οἱ σκῦροι hoi skûroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκῡ́ρου toû skū́rou | τοῖν σκῡ́ροιν toîn skū́roin | τῶν σκῡ́ρων tôn skū́rōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκῡ́ρῳ tôi skū́rōi | τοῖν σκῡ́ροιν toîn skū́roin | τοῖς σκῡ́ροις toîs skū́rois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σκῦρον tòn skûron | τὼ σκῡ́ρω tṑ skū́rō | τοὺς σκῡ́ρους toùs skū́rous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκῦρε skûre | σκῡ́ρω skū́rō | σκῦροι skûroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σκυρώδης (skurṓdēs)
- σκυρωτός (skurōtós)
Further reading
- “σκῦρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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