ἀσκάλαφος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάλαφος (kálaphos)

Etymology

The suffix -φος in animal names is well known. According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.ká.la.pʰos/ → /asˈka.la.ɸos/ → /asˈka.la.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.ká.la.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈka.la.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈka.la.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈka.la.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈka.la.fos/

Noun

ἀσκάλαφος • (askálaphos) m (genitive ἀσκαλάφου); second declension

1. kind of owl

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀσκάλαφος; τοῦ ἀσκαλάφου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀσκάλαφος ho askálaphos	τὼ ἀσκαλάφω tṑ askaláphō	οἱ ἀσκάλαφοι hoi askálaphoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκαλάφου toû askaláphou	τοῖν ἀσκαλάφοιν toîn askaláphoin	τῶν ἀσκαλάφων tôn askaláphōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκαλάφῳ tôi askaláphōi	τοῖν ἀσκαλάφοιν toîn askaláphoin	τοῖς ἀσκαλάφοις toîs askaláphois
Accusative	τὸν ἀσκάλαφον tòn askálaphon	τὼ ἀσκαλάφω tṑ askaláphō	τοὺς ἀσκαλάφους toùs askaláphous
Vocative	ἀσκάλαφε askálaphe	ἀσκαλάφω askaláphō	ἀσκάλαφοι askálaphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Ascalaphus

Further reading

• “ἀσκάλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀσκάλαφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσκάλαφος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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