σκυτάλη
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- σκύταλον (skútalon)
Etymology
[edit]The origin is unknown.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sky.tá.lɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skyˈta.le̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /scyˈta.li/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /scyˈta.li/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sciˈta.li/
Noun
[edit]σκῠτάλη • (skŭtálē) f (genitive σκῠτάλης); first declension
- A staff, a cudgel, a club
- (historical) A scytale, a baton used in Sparta as a cypher for writing dispatches
- A pole or staff like those of a sedan chair
- A strickle for levelling grain
- A wooden tally or ticket on a money bag
- A rod of metal or ivory
- A scourge whip
- A handle or lever in a machine
- A handspike for turning a wheel
- A sucker from a stem
- A serpent of uniform roundness and thickness
- (anatomy) A phalanx
Inflection
[edit]| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σκῠτάλη hē skŭtálē |
τὼ σκῠτάλᾱ tṑ skŭtálā |
αἱ σκῠτάλαι hai skŭtálai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σκῠτάλης tês skŭtálēs |
τοῖν σκῠτάλαιν toîn skŭtálain |
τῶν σκῠταλῶν tôn skŭtalôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σκῠτάλῃ tēî skŭtálēi |
τοῖν σκῠτάλαιν toîn skŭtálain |
ταῖς σκῠτάλαις taîs skŭtálais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σκῠτάλην tḕn skŭtálēn |
τὼ σκῠτάλᾱ tṑ skŭtálā |
τᾱ̀ς σκῠτάλᾱς tā̀s skŭtálās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκῠτάλη skŭtálē |
σκῠτάλᾱ skŭtálā |
σκῠτάλαι skŭtálai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- σκυταλίας (skutalías)
- σκυτάλιον (skutálion)
- σκυταλίς (skutalís)
- σκυταλισμός (skutalismós)
- σκυταλόομαι (skutalóomai)
- σκυτάλωσις (skutálōsis)
- σκυταλωτός (skutalōtós)
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: إِسْقَاطُولِيّ (ʔisqāṭūliyy, “the beam of wood or handle or lever used in simple machines”)
- → English: skytale
- > Greek: σκυτάλη (skytáli) (inherited)
- → Latin: scytalē
- → English: scytale
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σκῠτάλη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1363
Further reading
[edit]- “σκυτάλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκυτάλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σκυτάλη, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek σκῠτάλη (skŭtálē)
Noun
[edit]σκυτάλη • (skytáli) f (plural σκυτάλες)
- (athletics) baton (in relay races)
- (historical) scytale (simple Spartan cryptographic device)
Declension
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