ἄσκυρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἄσκυρος (áskuros), σκύρον (skúron)

Etymology

According to Furnée, the prothetic vowel points to Pre-Greek origin. On the other hand, Lewy connects the word with Hebrew שחור (shakhór, “black”), because the leaves of this plant have small black dots.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ás.ky.ron/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ky.ron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.cy.ron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.cy.ron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ci.ron/

Mark the vowel length of the ambiguous vowel ἄ by adding a macron after it if it is long, or a breve if it is short. By default, Module:grc-pronunciation assumes it is short if unmarked.
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Noun

ἄσκῠρον • (áskŭron) n (genitive ἀσκῠ́ρου); second declension

St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
Synonyms: ἀνδρόσαιμον (andrósaimon), ὑπέρεικος (hupéreikos)
water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)
Synonym: ἄλισμα (álisma)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄσκῠρον; τοῦ ἀσκῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄσκῠρον tò áskŭron	τὼ ἀσκῠ́ρω tṑ askŭ́rō	τᾰ̀ ἄσκῠρᾰ tằ áskŭră
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκῠ́ρου toû askŭ́rou	τοῖν ἀσκῠ́ροιν toîn askŭ́roin	τῶν ἀσκῠ́ρων tôn askŭ́rōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκῠ́ρῳ tôi askŭ́rōi	τοῖν ἀσκῠ́ροιν toîn askŭ́roin	τοῖς ἀσκῠ́ροις toîs askŭ́rois
Accusative	τὸ ἄσκῠρον tò áskŭron	τὼ ἀσκῠ́ρω tṑ askŭ́rō	τᾰ̀ ἄσκῠρᾰ tằ áskŭră
Vocative	ἄσκῠρον áskŭron	ἀσκῠ́ρω askŭ́rō	ἄσκῠρᾰ áskŭră
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀσκυροειδές (askuroeidés)

Descendants

→ Latin: ascyron

“ἄσκυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἄσκυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἄσκυρον 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
Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47