ἄσκαρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The musical instrument was a square with strings, so it probably has nothing to do with the shoe. Furnée analyses the shoe as a suffix -αρος added to ἀσκός (askós, “skin, bag made of skin”). The similarity with ἀσκέρα (askéra, “winter shoe”) could also suggest a Pre-Greek origin of this word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ás.ka.ros/ → /ˈas.ka.ros/ → /ˈas.ka.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ás.ka.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/

Noun

ἄσκᾰρος • (áskaros) m (genitive ἀσκᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. kind of castanet
2. kind of shoe

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄσκᾰρος; τοῦ ἀσκᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄσκᾰρος ho áskaros	τὼ ἀσκᾰ́ρω tṑ askárō	οἱ ἄσκᾰροι hoi áskaroi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκᾰ́ρου toû askárou	τοῖν ἀσκᾰ́ροιν toîn askároin	τῶν ἀσκᾰ́ρων tôn askárōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκᾰ́ρῳ tôi askárōi	τοῖν ἀσκᾰ́ροιν toîn askároin	τοῖς ἀσκᾰ́ροις toîs askárois
Accusative	τὸν ἄσκᾰρον tòn áskaron	τὼ ἀσκᾰ́ρω tṑ askárō	τοὺς ἀσκᾰ́ρους toùs askárous
Vocative	ἄσκᾰρε áskare	ἀσκᾰ́ρω askárō	ἄσκᾰροι áskaroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἄσκαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄσκαρος 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