σκέλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skélos (“curve, bending”), from *(s)kel- (“to curve, bend”).

Possibly related are σκελίς (skelís), σχελίς (skhelís, “rib(s) (of beef)”), but these may instead be from *(s)kelH- (“to cut, carve, split”) (cf. σκάλλω (skállō), σκύλλω (skúllō)), or Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ské.los/ → /ˈsce.los/ → /ˈsce.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ské.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈske.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.los/

Noun

σκέλος • (skélos) n (genitive σκέλεος); third declension

1. (anatomy) leg

Declension

Third declension of τὸ σκέλος; τοῦ σκέλους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σκέλος tò skélos	τὼ σκέλει tṑ skélei	τᾰ̀ σκέλη tằ skélē
Genitive	τοῦ σκέλους toû skélous	τοῖν σκελοῖν toîn skeloîn	τῶν σκελῶν tôn skelôn
Dative	τῷ σκέλει tôi skélei	τοῖν σκελοῖν toîn skeloîn	τοῖς σκέλεσῐ / σκέλεσῐν toîs skélesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ σκέλος tò skélos	τὼ σκέλει tṑ skélei	τᾰ̀ σκέλη tằ skélē
Vocative	σκέλος skélos	σκέλει skélei	σκέλη skélē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰσοσκελής (isoskelḗs)
• τετρασκελής (tetraskelḗs)
  • τετρασκέλιον (tetraskélion)

Further reading

• Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “σκέλος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 723–724
• “σκέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκέλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• σκέλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4628 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 484
• “σκέλος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsce.los/

Noun

σκέλος • (skélos) n

1. leg
2. part (distinct element of anything consisting of alike elements)

Declension

Declension of σκέλος

	singular	plural
nominative	σκέλος (skélos)	σκέλη (skéli)
genitive	σκέλους (skélous)	σκελών (skelón)
accusative	σκέλος (skélos)	σκέλη (skéli)
vocative	σκέλος (skélos)	σκέλη (skéli)

Also σκέλια, colloquial nominative plural for legs.

Further reading

• σκέλος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language