ἀσκητικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀσκητής (askētḗs) +‎ -ικός (-ikós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.kɛː.ti.kós/ → /as.ci.tiˈkos/ → /as.ci.tiˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.kɛː.ti.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /as.ke̝.tiˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /as.ci.tiˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /as.ci.tiˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /as.ci.tiˈkos/

Adjective

ἀσκητῐκός • (askētikós) m (feminine ἀσκητῐκή, neuter ἀσκητῐκόν); first/second declension

1. incident to an athlete
2. laborious
3. ascetic

Declension

First and second declension of ἀσκητῐκός; ἀσκητῐκή; ἀσκητῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ἀσκητῐκός askētikós	ἀσκητῐκή askētikḗ	ἀσκητῐκόν askētikón		ἀσκητῐκώ askētikṓ	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ askētikā́	ἀσκητῐκώ askētikṓ		ἀσκητῐκοί askētikoí	ἀσκητῐκαί askētikaí	ἀσκητῐκᾰ́ askētiká
Genitive		ἀσκητῐκοῦ askētikoû	ἀσκητῐκῆς askētikês	ἀσκητῐκοῦ askētikoû		ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētikoîn	ἀσκητῐκαῖν askētikaîn	ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētikoîn		ἀσκητῐκῶν askētikôn	ἀσκητῐκῶν askētikôn	ἀσκητῐκῶν askētikôn
Dative		ἀσκητῐκῷ askētikôi	ἀσκητῐκῇ askētikêi	ἀσκητῐκῷ askētikôi		ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētikoîn	ἀσκητῐκαῖν askētikaîn	ἀσκητῐκοῖν askētikoîn		ἀσκητῐκοῖς askētikoîs	ἀσκητῐκαῖς askētikaîs	ἀσκητῐκοῖς askētikoîs
Accusative		ἀσκητῐκόν askētikón	ἀσκητῐκήν askētikḗn	ἀσκητῐκόν askētikón		ἀσκητῐκώ askētikṓ	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ askētikā́	ἀσκητῐκώ askētikṓ		ἀσκητῐκούς askētikoús	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ς askētikā́s	ἀσκητῐκᾰ́ askētiká
Vocative		ἀσκητῐκέ askētiké	ἀσκητῐκή askētikḗ	ἀσκητῐκόν askētikón		ἀσκητῐκώ askētikṓ	ἀσκητῐκᾱ́ askētikā́	ἀσκητῐκώ askētikṓ		ἀσκητῐκοί askētikoí	ἀσκητῐκαί askētikaí	ἀσκητῐκᾰ́ askētiká
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ἀσκητῐκῶς askētikôs				ἀσκητῐκώτερος askētikṓteros				ἀσκητῐκώτᾰτος askētikṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: ασκητικός (askitikós)
• → Bulgarian: аскети́чен (asketíčen)
• → Catalan: ascètic
• → Czech: asketický
• → Dutch: ascetisch
• → Esperanto: asketo
• → Finnish: askeettinen
• → French: ascétique
• → German: asketisch
• → Hungarian: aszketikus
• → Indonesian: asketis
• → Irish: aiséitiúil
• → Italian: ascetico
• → Macedonian: а́скетски (ásketski)
• → Polish: ascetyczny
• → Portuguese: ascético
• → Romanian: ascetic, aschitac
• → Russian: аскети́чный (asketíčnyj)
• → Spanish: ascético
• → Swedish: asketisk
• → Welsh: asgetig, asgetaidd

Further reading

• ἀσκητικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσκητικός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀσκητικός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “ἀσκητικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press