σκαλίδρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καλίδρις (kalídris), κανδρίς (kandrís), σκαλίδρες (skalídres)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the variation σκ-/κ- may point to Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ska.lí.dris/ → /skaˈli.ðris/ → /skaˈli.ðris/

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

Noun

σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς • (skălĭ́drĭs) f (genitive σκᾰλῐ́δρεως); third declension

1. kind of speckled waterbird

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς; τῆς σκᾰλῐ́δρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς hē skălĭ́drĭs	τὼ σκᾰλῐ́δρει tṑ skălĭ́drei	αἱ σκᾰλῐ́δρεις hai skălĭ́dreis
Genitive	τῆς σκᾰλῐ́δρεως tês skălĭ́dreōs	τοῖν σκᾰλῐδρέοιν toîn skălĭdréoin	τῶν σκᾰλῐ́δρεων tôn skălĭ́dreōn
Dative	τῇ σκᾰλῐ́δρει têi skălĭ́drei	τοῖν σκᾰλῐδρέοιν toîn skălĭdréoin	ταῖς σκᾰλῐ́δρεσῐ / σκᾰλῐ́δρεσῐν taîs skălĭ́dresĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν σκᾰλῐ́δρῐν tḕn skălĭ́drĭn	τὼ σκᾰλῐ́δρει tṑ skălĭ́drei	τᾱ̀ς σκᾰλῐ́δρεις tā̀s skălĭ́dreis
Vocative	σκᾰλῐ́δρῐ skălĭ́drĭ	σκᾰλῐ́δρει skălĭ́drei	σκᾰλῐ́δρεις skălĭ́dreis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Calidris

Further reading

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