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 • (skălíās) 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 skălíās	τὼ σκᾰλίᾱ tṑ skălíā	οἱ σκᾰλίαι hoi skălíai
Genitive	τοῦ σκᾰλίου toû skălíou	τοῖν σκᾰλίαιν toîn skălíain	τῶν σκᾰλιῶν tôn skăliôn
Dative	τῷ σκᾰλίᾳ tôi skălíāi	τοῖν σκᾰλίαιν toîn skălíain	τοῖς σκᾰλίαις toîs skălíais
Accusative	τὸν σκᾰλίᾱν tòn skălíān	τὼ σκᾰλίᾱ tṑ skălíā	τοὺς σκᾰλίᾱς toùs skălíās
Vocative	σκᾰλίᾱ skălíā	σκᾰλίᾱ skălíā	σκᾰλίαι skălíai
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