σκυτάλη
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- σκύταλον (skútalon)
Etymology
[edit]The origin is unknown.
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 • (skutálē) f (genitive σκῠτάλης); first declension
- A staff, a cudgel, a club
- 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 | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκῠτάλη hē skutálē |
τὼ σκῠτάλᾱ tṑ skutálā |
αἱ σκῠτάλαι hai skutálai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκῠτάλης tês skutálēs |
τοῖν σκῠτάλαιν toîn skutálain |
τῶν σκῠταλῶν tôn skutalôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκῠτάλῃ têi skutálēi |
τοῖν σκῠτάλαιν toîn skutálain |
ταῖς σκῠτάλαις taîs skutálais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκῠτάλην tḕn skutálēn |
τὼ σκῠτάλᾱ tṑ skutálā |
τᾱ̀ς σκῠτάλᾱς tā̀s skutálās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκῠτάλη skutálē |
σκῠτάλᾱ skutálā |
σκῠτάλαι skutálai | ||||||||||
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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”)
- → Latin: scytalē
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
- 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
Greek
[edit]Noun
[edit]σκυτάλη • (skytáli) f (plural σκυτάλες)
- (athletics) baton (used in relay races)
- (ancient history) stick used for carrying messages in ancient Sparta
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | σκυτάλα (skytála) | σκυτάλες (skytáles) |
genitive | σκυτάλας (skytálas) | - |
accusative | σκυτάλα (skytála) | σκυτάλες (skytáles) |
vocative | σκυτάλα (skytála) | σκυτάλες (skytáles) |
There is a rare genitive plural form: σκυταλών
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