μέσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A Semitic borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *mašk-; cognates are Armenian մաշկ (mašk, “skin, hide”), Arabic مَسْك (mask) and Classical Syriac ܡܫܟܐ (meškā, “skin”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /més.kos/ → /ˈmes.kos/ → /ˈmes.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /més.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmes.kos/

Noun

μέσκος • (méskos) m (genitive μέσκου); second declension

1. sheepskin, fleece

   Synonym: κῴδιον (kṓidion)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μέσκος; τοῦ μέσκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μέσκος ho méskos	τὼ μέσκω tṑ méskō	οἱ μέσκοι hoi méskoi
Genitive	τοῦ μέσκου toû méskou	τοῖν μέσκοιν toîn méskoin	τῶν μέσκων tôn méskōn
Dative	τῷ μέσκῳ tôi méskōi	τοῖν μέσκοιν toîn méskoin	τοῖς μέσκοις toîs méskois
Accusative	τὸν μέσκον tòn méskon	τὼ μέσκω tṑ méskō	τοὺς μέσκους toùs méskous
Vocative	μέσκε méske	μέσκω méskō	μέσκοι méskoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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