ἀσκέρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, it is clearly a loanword. Perhaps from Lydian, or from Pre-Greek. Furnée compares ἄσκαρος (áskaros, “kind of shoe”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.ké.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /asˈke.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /asˈce.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /asˈce.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /asˈce.ra/
Noun
ἀσκέρᾰ • (askéra) f (genitive ἀσκέρᾱς); first declension
- winter shoe with fur lining
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀσκέρᾰ; τῆς ἀσκέρᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀσκέρᾰ hē askéra | τὼ ἀσκέρᾱ tṑ askérā | αἱ ἀσκέραι hai askérai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀσκέρᾱς tês askérās | τοῖν ἀσκέραιν toîn askérain | τῶν ἀσκερῶν tôn askerôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀσκέρᾳ têi askérāi | τοῖν ἀσκέραιν toîn askérain | ταῖς ἀσκέραις taîs askérais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀσκέρᾰν tḕn askéran | τὼ ἀσκέρᾱ tṑ askérā | τᾱ̀ς ἀσκέρᾱς tā̀s askérās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀσκέρᾰ askéra | ἀσκέρᾱ askérā | ἀσκέραι askérai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀσκερίσκα (askeríska)
Further reading
- “ἀσκέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀσκέρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀσκέρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- 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