ἀσκητικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀσκητής (askētḗs) +‎ -ικός (-ikós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.kɛː.ti.kós/ → /as.ci.tiˈkos/ → /as.ci.tiˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.kɛː.ti.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /as.ke̝.tiˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /as.ci.tiˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /as.ci.tiˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /as.ci.tiˈkos/

Adjective

ἀσκητῐκός • (askētĭkós) m (feminine ἀσκητῐκή, neuter ἀσκητῐκόν); first/second declension

1. incident to an athlete
2. laborious
3. ascetic

Declension

First and second declension of ἀσκητῐκός; ἀσκητῐκή; ἀσκητῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἀσκητῐκός askētĭkós	ἀσκητῐκή askētĭkḗ	ἀσκητῐκόν askētĭkón		ἀσκητῐκώ askētĭkṓ	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ askētĭkā́	ἀσκητῐκώ askētĭkṓ		ἀσκητῐκοί askētĭkoí	ἀσκητῐκαί askētĭkaí	ἀσκητῐκᾰ́ askētĭkắ
Genitive		ἀσκητῐκοῦ askētĭkoû	ἀσκητῐκῆς askētĭkês	ἀσκητῐκοῦ askētĭkoû		ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētĭkoîn	ἀσκητῐκαῖν askētĭkaîn	ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētĭkoîn		ἀσκητῐκῶν askētĭkôn	ἀσκητῐκῶν askētĭkôn	ἀσκητῐκῶν askētĭkôn
Dative		ἀσκητῐκῷ askētĭkôi	ἀσκητῐκῇ askētĭkêi	ἀσκητῐκῷ askētĭkôi		ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētĭkoîn	ἀσκητῐκαῖν askētĭkaîn	ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētĭkoîn		ἀσκητῐκοῖς askētĭkoîs	ἀσκητῐκαῖς askētĭkaîs	ἀσκητῐκοῖς askētĭkoîs
Accusative		ἀσκητῐκόν askētĭkón	ἀσκητῐκήν askētĭkḗn	ἀσκητῐκόν askētĭkón		ἀσκητῐκώ askētĭkṓ	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ askētĭkā́	ἀσκητῐκώ askētĭkṓ		ἀσκητῐκούς askētĭkoús	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ς askētĭkā́s	ἀσκητῐκᾰ́ askētĭkắ
Vocative		ἀσκητῐκέ askētĭké	ἀσκητῐκή askētĭkḗ	ἀσκητῐκόν askētĭkón		ἀσκητῐκώ askētĭkṓ	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ askētĭkā́	ἀσκητῐκώ askētĭkṓ		ἀσκητῐκοί askētĭkoí	ἀσκητῐκαί askētĭkaí	ἀσκητῐκᾰ́ askētĭkắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἀσκητῐκῶς askētĭkôs				ἀσκητῐκώτερος askētĭkṓteros				ἀσκητῐκώτᾰτος askētĭkṓtătos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: ασκητικός (askitikós)
• → Bulgarian: аскети́чен (asketíčen)
• → Catalan: ascètic
• → Czech: asketický
• → Dutch: ascetisch
• → Esperanto: asketo
• → Finnish: askeettinen
• → French: ascétique
• → German: asketisch
• → Hungarian: aszketikus
• → Indonesian: asketis
• → Irish: aiséitiúil
• → Italian: ascetico
• → Macedonian: а́скетски (ásketski)
• → Polish: ascetyczny
• → Portuguese: ascético
• → Romanian: ascetic, aschitac
• → Russian: аскети́чный (asketíčnyj)
• → Spanish: ascético
• → Swedish: asketisk
• → Welsh: asgetig, asgetaidd

Further reading

• ἀσκητικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσκητικός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἀσκητικός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀσκητικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press