μέσκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A Semitic borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *mašk-; cognates are Armenian մաշկ (mašk, “skin, hide”), Arabic مَسْك (mask) and Classical Syriac ܡܫܟܐ (meškā, “skin”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /més.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛs.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmes.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmes.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmes.kos/
Noun
μέσκος • (méskos) m (genitive μέσκου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μέσκος ho méskos |
τὼ μέσκω tṑ méskō |
οἱ μέσκοι hoi méskoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μέσκου toû méskou |
τοῖν μέσκοιν toîn méskoin |
τῶν μέσκων tôn méskōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μέσκῳ tôi méskōi |
τοῖν μέσκοιν toîn méskoin |
τοῖς μέσκοις toîs méskois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μέσκον tòn méskon |
τὼ μέσκω tṑ méskō |
τοὺς μέσκους toùs méskous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μέσκε méske |
μέσκω méskō |
μέσκοι méskoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- μέσκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
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