ἀσκέρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, it is clearly a loanword. Perhaps from Lydian, or from Pre-Greek. Furnée compares ἄσκαρος (áskaros, “kind of shoe”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.ké.ra/ → /asˈce.ra/ → /asˈce.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.ké.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /asˈke.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /asˈce.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /asˈce.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /asˈce.ra/

Noun

ἀσκέρᾰ • (askéra) f (genitive ἀσκέρᾱς); first declension

1. winter shoe with fur lining

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀσκέρᾰ; τῆς ἀσκέρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀσκέρᾰ hē askéra	τὼ ἀσκέρᾱ tṑ askérā	αἱ ἀσκέραι hai askérai
Genitive	τῆς ἀσκέρᾱς tês askérās	τοῖν ἀσκέραιν toîn askérain	τῶν ἀσκερῶν tôn askerôn
Dative	τῇ ἀσκέρᾳ têi askérāi	τοῖν ἀσκέραιν toîn askérain	ταῖς ἀσκέραις taîs askérais
Accusative	τὴν ἀσκέρᾰν tḕn askéran	τὼ ἀσκέρᾱ tṑ askérā	τᾱ̀ς ἀσκέρᾱς tā̀s askérās
Vocative	ἀσκέρᾰ askéra	ἀσκέρᾱ askérā	ἀσκέραι askérai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀσκερίσκα (askeríska)

Further reading

• “ἀσκέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀσκέρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσκέρα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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