ἀσχίον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Lewy, from Hebrew אֶשֶׁךְ (ʾéšeḵ, “testicle”), because of its similar form. He further compares ὄρχις (órkhis), which means both "testicle" and "salep".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.kʰí.on/ → /asˈçi.on/ → /asˈçi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.kʰí.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈkʰi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈçi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈçi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈçi.on/

Noun

ἀσχῐ́ον • (askhíon) n (genitive ἀσχῐ́ου); second declension

1. giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ἀσχῐ́ον; τοῦ ἀσχῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἀσχῐ́ον tò askhíon	τὼ ἀσχῐ́ω tṑ askhíō	τᾰ̀ ἀσχῐ́ᾰ tà askhía
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσχῐ́ου toû askhíou	τοῖν ἀσχῐ́οιν toîn askhíoin	τῶν ἀσχῐ́ων tôn askhíōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσχῐ́ῳ tôi askhíōi	τοῖν ἀσχῐ́οιν toîn askhíoin	τοῖς ἀσχῐ́οις toîs askhíois
Accusative	τὸ ἀσχῐ́ον tò askhíon	τὼ ἀσχῐ́ω tṑ askhíō	τᾰ̀ ἀσχῐ́ᾰ tà askhía
Vocative	ἀσχῐ́ον askhíon	ἀσχῐ́ω askhíō	ἀσχῐ́ᾰ askhía
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἀσχίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀσχίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσχίον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31