ὄσχη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὀσχέα (oskhéa), ὄσχεον (óskheon), ὄσχεος (óskheos)
Etymology
Explained by Frisk as metaphorical use of ὄσχος (óskhos, “vine-branch”). According to Beekes, the word may well be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ós.kʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈos.kʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈos.çi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈos.çi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈos.çi/
Noun
ὄσχη • (óskhē) f (genitive ὄσχης); first declension
- (anatomy) scrotum
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ὄσχη; τῆς ὄσχης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ὄσχη hē óskhē | τὼ ὄσχᾱ tṑ óskhā | αἱ ὄσχαι hai óskhai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ὄσχης tês óskhēs | τοῖν ὄσχαιν toîn óskhain | τῶν ὀσχῶν tôn oskhôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ὄσχῃ têi óskhēi | τοῖν ὄσχαιν toîn óskhain | ταῖς ὄσχαις taîs óskhais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ὄσχην tḕn óskhēn | τὼ ὄσχᾱ tṑ óskhā | τᾱ̀ς ὄσχᾱς tā̀s óskhās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ὄσχη óskhē | ὄσχᾱ óskhā | ὄσχαι óskhai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὄσχῐον (óskhion)
Descendants
- Greek: όσχεο (óscheo)
Further reading
- “ὄσχη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄσχη 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