σκάνδαλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skand- (“to jump”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skán.da.lon/ → /ˈskan.da.lon/ → /ˈskan.da.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skán.da.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.da.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.da.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.da.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.da.lon/

Noun

σκᾰ́νδᾰλον • (skándalon) n (genitive σκᾰνδᾰ́λου); second declension

1. trap, snare
2. enticement, temptation
3. offense, scandal
4. stumbling block

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σκᾰ́νδᾰλον; τοῦ σκᾰνδᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σκᾰ́νδᾰλον tò skándalon	τὼ σκᾰνδᾰ́λω tṑ skandálō	τᾰ̀ σκᾰ́νδᾰλᾰ tà skándala
Genitive	τοῦ σκᾰνδᾰ́λου toû skandálou	τοῖν σκᾰνδᾰ́λοιν toîn skandáloin	τῶν σκᾰνδᾰ́λων tôn skandálōn
Dative	τῷ σκᾰνδᾰ́λῳ tôi skandálōi	τοῖν σκᾰνδᾰ́λοιν toîn skandáloin	τοῖς σκᾰνδᾰ́λοις toîs skandálois
Accusative	τὸ σκᾰ́νδᾰλον tò skándalon	τὼ σκᾰνδᾰ́λω tṑ skandálō	τᾰ̀ σκᾰ́νδᾰλᾰ tà skándala
Vocative	σκᾰ́νδᾰλον skándalon	σκᾰνδᾰ́λω skandálō	σκᾰ́νδᾰλᾰ skándala
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκᾰνδᾰ́ληθρον (skandálēthron)
• σκᾰνδᾰλῐ́ζω (skandalízō)

 

Descendants

• Greek: σκάνδαλο (skándalo)
• → Latin: scandalum
  • Catalan: escàndol
  • → French: scandale
    • → Belarusian: сканда́л (skandál)
    • → Bulgarian: сканда́л (skandál)
    • → Czech: skandál
    • → Danish: skandale
    • → Dutch: schandaal
      • → Indonesian: skandal
    • → English: scandal
      • → Japanese: スキャンダル (sukyandaru)
      • → Korean: 스캔들 (seukaendeul)
    • → Esperanto: skandalo
    • → Estonian: skandaal
    • → Finnish: skandaali
    • → German: Skandal
    • → Persian: اسکاندال (eskândâl)
    • → Polish: skandal
    • → Russian: сканда́л (skandál)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: skandal
    • → Slovak: škandál
    • → Swedish: skandal
    • → Turkish: skandal
    • → Ukrainian: сканда́л (skandál)
  • → Galician: escándalo
  • Italian: scandalo
  • → Norman: escandale
  • Old French: esclandre
    • → Middle English: slandre
      • English: slander
    • French: esclandre
      • → English: esclandre
    • Norman: esclandre
  • → Portuguese: escândalo
  • Romanian: scandal
  • Sicilian: scànnalu
  • Spanish: escándalo
  • Vulgar Latin: *scandulum
    • → Albanian: shkandull

Further reading

• “σκάνδαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σκάνδαλον 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
• G4625 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible