σκολόπενδρα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suggested to be a combination of σκόλοψ (skólops, “thorn”) and ἔντερον (énteron, “earthworm”), but Beekes finds this unconvincing and suggests Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sko.ló.pen.dra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
Noun
[edit]σκολόπενδρᾰ • (skolópendra) f (genitive σκολοπένδρᾱς); first declension
- millipede
- the sea scolopendra, an animal from the genus Nereis
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκολόπενδρᾰ hē skolópendra |
τὼ σκολοπένδρᾱ tṑ skolopéndrā |
αἱ σκολόπενδραι hai skolópendrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκολοπένδρᾱς tês skolopéndrās |
τοῖν σκολοπένδραιν toîn skolopéndrain |
τῶν σκολοπενδρῶν tôn skolopendrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκολοπένδρᾳ têi skolopéndrāi |
τοῖν σκολοπένδραιν toîn skolopéndrain |
ταῖς σκολοπένδραις taîs skolopéndrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκολόπενδρᾰν tḕn skolópendran |
τὼ σκολοπένδρᾱ tṑ skolopéndrā |
τᾱ̀ς σκολοπένδρᾱς tā̀s skolopéndrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκολόπενδρᾰ skolópendra |
σκολοπένδρᾱ skolopéndrā |
σκολόπενδραι skolópendrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- σκολοπένδρειος (skolopéndreios)
- σκολοπένδριον (skolopéndrion)
- σκολοπενδρώδης (skolopendrṓdēs)
Descendants
[edit]- → Italian: scolopendra
- → French: scolopendre
- → Russian: сколопендра (skolopendra)
Further reading
[edit]- “σκολόπενδρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκολόπενδρα 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
Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- σκολόπεντρα f (skolópentra)
Noun
[edit]σκολόπενδρα • (skolópendra) f (plural σκολόπενδρες)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra) | σκολόπενδρες (skolópendres) |
genitive | σκολόπενδρας (skolópendras) | σκολοπενδρών (skolopendrón) |
accusative | σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra) | σκολόπενδρες (skolópendres) |
vocative | σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra) | σκολόπενδρες (skolópendres) |
Synonyms
[edit]- σαρανταποδαρούσα f (sarantapodaroúsa)
Further reading
[edit]- Σαρανταποδαρούσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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