σκαλίδρις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καλίδρις (kalídris), κανδρίς (kandrís), σκαλίδρες (skalídres)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the variation σκ-/κ- may point to Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ska.lí.dris/ → /skaˈli.ðris/ → /skaˈli.ðris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ska.lí.dris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.dris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.ðris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.ðris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skaˈli.ðris/

Noun

σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς • (skalídris) f (genitive σκᾰλῐ́δρεως); third declension

1. kind of speckled waterbird

Declension

Third declension of ἡ σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς; τῆς σκᾰλῐ́δρεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκᾰλῐ́δρῐς hē skalídris	τὼ σκᾰλῐ́δρει tṑ skalídrei	αἱ σκᾰλῐ́δρεις hai skalídreis
Genitive	τῆς σκᾰλῐ́δρεως tês skalídreōs	τοῖν σκᾰλῐδρέοιν toîn skalidréoin	τῶν σκᾰλῐ́δρεων tôn skalídreōn
Dative	τῇ σκᾰλῐ́δρει têi skalídrei	τοῖν σκᾰλῐδρέοιν toîn skalidréoin	ταῖς σκᾰλῐ́δρεσῐ / σκᾰλῐ́δρεσῐν taîs skalídresi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σκᾰλῐ́δρῐν tḕn skalídrin	τὼ σκᾰλῐ́δρει tṑ skalídrei	τᾱ̀ς σκᾰλῐ́δρεις tā̀s skalídreis
Vocative	σκᾰλῐ́δρῐ skalídri	σκᾰλῐ́δρει skalídrei	σκᾰλῐ́δρεις skalídreis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Calidris

Further reading

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