ἄσκαρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The musical instrument was a square with strings, so it probably has nothing to do with the shoe. Furnée analyses the shoe as a suffix -αρος added to ἀσκός (askós, “skin, bag made of skin”). The similarity with ἀσκέρα (askéra, “winter shoe”) could also suggest a Pre-Greek origin of this word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ás.ka.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
Noun
ἄσκᾰρος • (áskaros) m (genitive ἀσκᾰ́ρου); second declension
- kind of castanet
- kind of shoe
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ ἄσκᾰρος; τοῦ ἀσκᾰ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἄσκᾰρος ho áskaros | τὼ ἀσκᾰ́ρω tṑ askárō | οἱ ἄσκᾰροι hoi áskaroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀσκᾰ́ρου toû askárou | τοῖν ἀσκᾰ́ροιν toîn askároin | τῶν ἀσκᾰ́ρων tôn askárōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀσκᾰ́ρῳ tôi askárōi | ἀσκᾰ́ροιν askároin | τοῖς ἀσκᾰ́ροις toîs askárois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἄσκᾰρον tòn áskaron | ἀσκᾰ́ρω askárō | τοὺς ἀσκᾰ́ρους toùs askárous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄσκᾰρε áskare | ἀσκᾰ́ρω askárō | ἄσκᾰροι áskaroi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- ἄσκαρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄσκαρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- 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