σκορπίος

See also: σκορπιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skor.pí.os/ → /skorˈpi.os/ → /skorˈpi.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skor.pí.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/

Noun

σκορπῐ́ος • (skorpíos) m (genitive σκορπῐ́ου); second declension

1. scorpion
2. scorpionfish
3. a prickly plant
4. an engine of war which discharged arrows

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σκορπῐ́ος; τοῦ σκορπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκορπῐ́ος ho skorpíos	τὼ σκορπῐ́ω tṑ skorpíō	οἱ σκορπῐ́οι hoi skorpíoi
Genitive	τοῦ σκορπῐ́ου toû skorpíou	τοῖν σκορπῐ́οιν toîn skorpíoin	τῶν σκορπῐ́ων tôn skorpíōn
Dative	τῷ σκορπῐ́ῳ tôi skorpíōi	τοῖν σκορπῐ́οιν toîn skorpíoin	τοῖς σκορπῐ́οις toîs skorpíois
Accusative	τὸν σκορπῐ́ον tòn skorpíon	τὼ σκορπῐ́ω tṑ skorpíō	τοὺς σκορπῐ́ους toùs skorpíous
Vocative	σκορπῐ́ε skorpíe	σκορπῐ́ω skorpíō	σκορπῐ́οι skorpíoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: σκορπιός m (skorpiós)
• Latin: scorpiō
  • Dutch: schorpioen
  • English scorpion
  • Russian: скорпио́н m (skorpión)

Further reading

• “σκορπίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκορπίος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4651 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • scorpion idem, page 741.