σκαλίας

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀσκαλία (askalía)

Etymology

Frisk connects the word with Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“shell”) but Furnée rather adduces ἀσκαλία (askalía) and ἀσκάληρον (askálēron), which would point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ska.lí.aːs/ → /skaˈli.as/ → /skaˈli.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ska.lí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.as/

Noun

σκᾰλίᾱς • (skalíās) m (genitive σκᾰλίου); first declension

1. (botany) fruit shell of the artichoke

   Synonym: ἀσκάληρον (askálēron)

Declension

First declension of ὁ σκᾰλίᾱς; τοῦ σκᾰλίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκᾰλίᾱς ho skalíās	τὼ σκᾰλίᾱ tṑ skalíā	οἱ σκᾰλίαι hoi skalíai
Genitive	τοῦ σκᾰλίου toû skalíou	τοῖν σκᾰλίαιν toîn skalíain	τῶν σκᾰλιῶν tôn skaliôn
Dative	τῷ σκᾰλίᾳ tôi skalíāi	τοῖν σκᾰλίαιν toîn skalíain	τοῖς σκᾰλίαις toîs skalíais
Accusative	τὸν σκᾰλίᾱν tòn skalíān	τὼ σκᾰλίᾱ tṑ skalíā	τοὺς σκᾰλίᾱς toùs skalíās
Vocative	σκᾰλίᾱ skalíā	σκᾰλίᾱ skalíā	σκᾰλίαι skalíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σκαλίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκαλίας 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