σκάρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, perhaps related to σκαίρω (skaírō, “to dance, to jump”) because of its lively movements. Or maybe related to σκαρῖτις (skarîtis, “a kind of stone”) if named after its colour.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ská.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈska.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈska.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈska.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈska.ros/
Noun
σκάρος • (skáros) m (genitive σκάρου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ σκᾰ́ρος ho skáros |
τὼ σκᾰ́ρω tṑ skárō |
οἱ σκᾰ́ροι hoi skároi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκᾰ́ρου toû skárou |
τοῖν σκᾰ́ροιν toîn skároin |
τῶν σκᾰ́ρων tôn skárōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκᾰ́ρῳ tôi skárōi |
τοῖν σκᾰ́ροιν toîn skároin |
τοῖς σκᾰ́ροις toîs skárois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν σκᾰ́ρον tòn skáron |
τὼ σκᾰ́ρω tṑ skárō |
τοὺς σκᾰ́ρους toùs skárous | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκᾰ́ρε skáre |
σκᾰ́ρω skárō |
σκᾰ́ροι skároi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: scarus
Further reading
- “σκάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκάρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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