σκίλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained foreign word, but probably of origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skíl.la/ → /ˈscil.la/ → /ˈsci.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skíl.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskil.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscil.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscil.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.la/

Noun

σκίλλα • (skílla) f (genitive σκίλλης); first declension

1. squill (the name of various plants of the genus Scilla, and particularly Drimia maritima)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκῐ́λλᾰ; τῆς σκῐ́λλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκῐ́λλᾰ hē skílla	τὼ σκῐ́λλᾱ tṑ skíllā	αἱ σκῐ́λλαι hai skíllai
Genitive	τῆς σκῐ́λλης tês skíllēs	τοῖν σκῐ́λλαιν toîn skíllain	τῶν σκῐλλῶν tôn skillôn
Dative	τῇ σκῐ́λλῃ têi skíllēi	τοῖν σκῐ́λλαιν toîn skíllain	ταῖς σκῐ́λλαις taîs skíllais
Accusative	τὴν σκῐ́λλᾰν tḕn skíllan	τὼ σκῐ́λλᾱ tṑ skíllā	τᾱ̀ς σκῐ́λλᾱς tā̀s skíllās
Vocative	σκῐ́λλᾰ skílla	σκῐ́λλᾱ skíllā	σκῐ́λλαι skíllai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκίλλινος (skíllinos)
• σκιλλίτης (skillítēs)
• σκιλλιτικός (skillitikós)
• σκιλλώδης (skillṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: إشْقِيل (ʔišqīl), إسْقِيل (ʔisqīl)
  • → Medieval Hebrew: אישקיל (ʾišqī́l)
• → Latin: scilla
  • Translingual: Scilla
  • → English: squill
  • → French: scille
  • → Italian: scilla
  • → Swedish: scilla

References

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