σκολόπενδρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Suggested to be a combination of σκόλοψ (skólops, “thorn”) and ἔντερον (énteron, “earthworm”), but Beekes finds this unconvincing and suggests Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sko.ló.pen.dra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pɛn.dra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
Noun
σκολόπενδρᾰ • (skolópendra) f (genitive σκολοπένδρᾱς); first declension
- millipede
- the sea scolopendra, an animal from the genus Nereis
- a kind of fern, hart's tongue, hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium
- Galen, Collected Works
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκολόπενδρᾰ hē skolópendra |
τὼ σκολοπένδρᾱ tṑ skolopéndrā |
αἱ σκολόπενδραι hai skolópendrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκολοπένδρᾱς tês skolopéndrās |
τοῖν σκολοπένδραιν toîn skolopéndrain |
τῶν σκολοπενδρῶν tôn skolopendrôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκολοπένδρᾳ têi skolopéndrāi |
τοῖν σκολοπένδραιν toîn skolopéndrain |
ταῖς σκολοπένδραις taîs skolopéndrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκολόπενδρᾰν tḕn skolópendran |
τὼ σκολοπένδρᾱ tṑ skolopéndrā |
τᾱ̀ς σκολοπένδρᾱς tā̀s skolopéndrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκολόπενδρᾰ skolópendra |
σκολοπένδρᾱ skolopéndrā |
σκολόπενδραι skolópendrai | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (fern): σκολοπένδριον (skolopéndrion)
Descendants
- Italian: scolopendra
- Russian: сколопендра (skolopendra)
Further reading
- σκολόπενδρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκολόπενδρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Alternative forms
- σκολόπεντρα f (skolópentra)
Declension
declension of σκολόπενδρα
singular | plural | |
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nominative | σκολόπενδρα • | σκολόπενδρες • |
genitive | σκολόπενδρας • | σκολοπενδρών • |
accusative | σκολόπενδρα • | σκολόπενδρες • |
vocative | σκολόπενδρα • | σκολόπενδρες • |
Synonyms
- σαρανταποδαρούσα f (sarantapodaroúsa)
Further reading
Σαρανταποδαρούσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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