σκορπίος
See also: σκορπιός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /skor.pí.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skorˈpi.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skorˈpi.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /skorˈpi.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /skorˈpi.os/
Noun
σκορπῐ́ος • (skorpíos) m (genitive σκορπῐ́ου); second declension
- scorpion
- scorpionfish
- a prickly plant
- an engine of war which discharged arrows
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ σκορπῐ́ος ho skorpíos |
τὼ σκορπῐ́ω tṑ skorpíō |
οἱ σκορπῐ́οι hoi skorpíoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ σκορπῐ́ου toû skorpíou |
τοῖν σκορπῐ́οιν toîn skorpíoin |
τῶν σκορπῐ́ων tôn skorpíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ σκορπῐ́ῳ tôi skorpíōi |
τοῖν σκορπῐ́οιν toîn skorpíoin |
τοῖς σκορπῐ́οις toîs skorpíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν σκορπῐ́ον tòn skorpíon |
τὼ σκορπῐ́ω tṑ skorpíō |
τοὺς σκορπῐ́ους toùs skorpíous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκορπῐ́ε skorpíe |
σκορπῐ́ω skorpíō |
σκορπῐ́οι skorpíoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: σκορπιός m (skorpiós)
- Latin: scorpiō
- Dutch: schorpioen
- English scorpion
- Russian: скорпио́н m (skorpión)
Further reading
- σκορπίος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκορπίος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4651 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- scorpion idem, page 741.
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