σκυτάλη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σκύταλον (skútalon)
Etymology
The origin is unknown.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sky.tá.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skyˈta.le/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skyˈta.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /scyˈta.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sciˈta.li/
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Noun
σκυτάλη • (skutálē) f (genitive σκυτάλης); first declension
- A staff, a cudgel, a club
- A baton used in Sparta as a cypher for writing dispatches
- A pole or staff like those of a sedan chair
- A strickle for levelling grain
- A wooden tally or ticket on a money bag
- A rod of metal or ivory
- A scourge whip
- A handle or lever in a machine
- A handspike for turning a wheel
- A sucker from a stem
- A serpent of uniform roundness and thickness
- (anatomy) A phalanx
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκυτάλη hē skutálē |
τὼ σκυτάλᾱ tṑ skutálā |
αἱ σκυτάλαι hai skutálai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκυτάλης tês skutálēs |
τοῖν σκυτάλαιν toîn skutálain |
τῶν σκυταλῶν tôn skutalôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκυτάλῃ têi skutálēi |
τοῖν σκυτάλαιν toîn skutálain |
ταῖς σκυτάλαις taîs skutálais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκυτάλην tḕn skutálēn |
τὼ σκυτάλᾱ tṑ skutálā |
τᾱ̀ς σκυτάλᾱς tā̀s skutálās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκυτάλη skutálē |
σκυτάλᾱ skutálā |
σκυτάλαι skutálai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σκυταλίας (skutalías)
- σκυτάλιον (skutálion)
- σκυταλίς (skutalís)
- σκυταλισμός (skutalismós)
- σκυταλόομαι (skutalóomai)
- σκυτάλωσις (skutálōsis)
- σκυταλωτός (skutalōtós)
Descendants
- Latin: scytale
References
- σκυτάλη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκυτάλη 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
Greek
Noun
σκυτάλη • (skytáli) f (plural σκυτάλες)
Declension
declension of σκυτάλη
singular | plural | ||
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nominative | σκυτάλα • | σκυτάλες • | |
genitive | σκυτάλας • | — | |
accusative | σκυτάλα • | σκυτάλες • | |
vocative | σκυτάλα • | σκυτάλες • | |
There is a rare genitive plural form: σκυταλών |
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