σκέπας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Although σκέπω (sképō, “to cover, shelter”) seems primary at first sight, it is attested only late, which may indicate that it should rather be interpreted as a back-formation from the denominative verb σκεπάζω (skepázō) or from σκέπη (sképē). Although the stem looks Indo-European and could be projected back to a pre-form *skep-, no good cognates are known. Only some Balto-Slavic forms like Lithuanian kepùre and Proto-Slavic *čepьcь (“bonnet”) may be connected, although these reflect an s-less stem *kep-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ské.pas/ → /ˈsce.pas/ → /ˈsce.pas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ské.pas/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈske.pas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.pas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.pas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.pas/

Noun

σκέπᾰς • (sképas) n (genitive σκέπᾰος); third declension

1. covering, shelter

   Synonym: σκέπη (sképē)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ σκέπᾰς; τοῦ σκέπᾰος (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σκέπᾰς tò sképas	τὼ σκέπᾰε tṑ sképae	τᾰ̀ σκέπᾰᾰ tà sképaa
Genitive	τοῦ σκέπᾰος toû sképaos	τοῖν σκεπᾰ́οιν toîn skepáoin	τῶν σκεπᾰ́ων tôn skepáōn
Dative	τῷ σκέπᾰῐ̈ tôi sképaï	τοῖν σκεπᾰ́οιν toîn skepáoin	τοῖς σκέπᾰσῐ / σκέπᾰσῐν toîs sképasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ σκέπᾰς tò sképas	τὼ σκέπᾰε tṑ sképae	τᾰ̀ σκέπᾰᾰ tà sképaa
Vocative	σκέπᾰς sképas	σκέπᾰε sképae	σκέπᾰᾰ sképaa
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σκέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σκέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “σκέπας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• σκέπας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σκέπας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκέπας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1347