σκίπων

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκήπων (skḗpōn), σκίμπων (skímpōn)

Etymology

This word is built like δόλων (dólōn), κύφων (kúphōn) and other tool names, and almost identical with Latin scīpiō (“staff”). The further similarity with σκηπάνη (skēpánē, “staff”) and σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff”) has been observed for a long time; however the forms cannot be combined under one pre-form. It is unlikely that σκίμπτομαι (skímptomai, “to press forward”) is a denominative nasal present (like σκήπτομαι (skḗptomai) from σκᾶπος (skâpos)). Further connection is considered with the semantically unclear σκοῖπος (skoîpos, “supporting beam on which the tiles rest”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skǐː.pɔːn/ → /ˈsci.pon/ → /ˈsci.pon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skǐː.pɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈski.pon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.pon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.pon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.pon/

Noun

σκῑ́πων • (skī́pōn) m (genitive σκῑ́πωνος); third declension

1. staff, stick, crutch

   Synonym: σκῆπτρον (skêptron)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ σκῑ́πων; τοῦ σκῑ́πωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκῑ́πων ho skī́pōn	τὼ σκῑ́πωνε tṑ skī́pōne	οἱ σκῑ́πωνες hoi skī́pōnes
Genitive	τοῦ σκῑ́πωνος toû skī́pōnos	τοῖν σκῑπώνοιν toîn skīpṓnoin	τῶν σκῑπώνων tôn skīpṓnōn
Dative	τῷ σκῑ́πωνῐ tôi skī́pōni	τοῖν σκῑπώνοιν toîn skīpṓnoin	τοῖς σκῑ́πωσῐ / σκῑ́πωσῐν toîs skī́pōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν σκῑ́πωνᾰ tòn skī́pōna	τὼ σκῑ́πωνε tṑ skī́pōne	τοὺς σκῑ́πωνᾰς toùs skī́pōnas
Vocative	σκῑ́πων skī́pōn	σκῑ́πωνε skī́pōne	σκῑ́πωνες skī́pōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀσκῑ́πων (askī́pōn)

Further reading

• “σκίπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σκίπων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σκίπων 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