σχαλίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Technical word in -ίς, like δοκίς (dokís), σανίς (sanís) and ψαλίς (psalís). One might connect σκαλίς (skalís, “mattock”) or, alternatively, σχέτω (skhétō, “to hold”). Both explanations do not convince; the word may instead be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skʰa.lís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skʰaˈlis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sxaˈlis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sxaˈlis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sxaˈlis/
Noun
σχᾰλίς • (skhalís) f (genitive σχᾰλίδος); third declension
- forked stick used as a prop for nets
- Synonym: στάλιξ (stálix)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ σχᾰλῐ́ς; τῆς σχᾰλῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σχᾰλῐ́ς hē skhalís | τὼ σχᾰλῐ́δε tṑ skhalíde | αἱ σχᾰλῐ́δες hai skhalídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σχᾰλῐ́δος tês skhalídos | τοῖν σχᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn skhalídoin | τῶν σχᾰλῐ́δων tôn skhalídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σχᾰλῐ́δῐ têi skhalídi | τοῖν σχᾰλῐ́δοιν toîn skhalídoin | ταῖς σχᾰλῐ́σῐ / σχᾰλῐ́σῐν taîs skhalísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σχᾰλῐ́δᾰ tḕn skhalída | τὼ σχᾰλῐ́δε tṑ skhalíde | τᾱ̀ς σχᾰλῐ́δᾰς tā̀s skhalídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σχᾰλῐ́ς skhalís | σχᾰλῐ́δε skhalíde | σχᾰλῐ́δες skhalídes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σχαλίδωμα (skhalídōma)
Further reading
- σχαλίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σχαλίς 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