ὄσχη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀσχέα (oskhéa), ὄσχεον (óskheon), ὄσχεος (óskheos)

Etymology

Explained by Frisk as metaphorical use of ὄσχος (óskhos, “vine-branch”). According to Beekes, the word may well be of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ós.kʰɛː/ → /ˈos.çi/ → /ˈos.çi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ós.kʰɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈos.kʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈos.çi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈos.çi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈos.çi/

Noun

ὄσχη • (óskhē) f (genitive ὄσχης); first declension

1. (anatomy) scrotum

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ὄσχη; τῆς ὄσχης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὄσχη hē óskhē	τὼ ὄσχᾱ tṑ óskhā	αἱ ὄσχαι hai óskhai
Genitive	τῆς ὄσχης tês óskhēs	τοῖν ὄσχαιν toîn óskhain	τῶν ὀσχῶν tôn oskhôn
Dative	τῇ ὄσχῃ têi óskhēi	τοῖν ὄσχαιν toîn óskhain	ταῖς ὄσχαις taîs óskhais
Accusative	τὴν ὄσχην tḕn óskhēn	τὼ ὄσχᾱ tṑ óskhā	τᾱ̀ς ὄσχᾱς tā̀s óskhās
Vocative	ὄσχη óskhē	ὄσχᾱ óskhā	ὄσχαι óskhai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὄσχῐον (óskhion)

Descendants

• Greek: όσχεο (óscheo)

Further reading

• “ὄσχη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄσχη 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