σκύβαλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée has compared the word with κύπελλα (kúpella). If correct, then the word is .

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ský.ba.lon/ → /ˈscy.βa.lon/ → /ˈsci.va.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ský.ba.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsky.ba.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.βa.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.va.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.va.lon/

Noun

σκύβᾰλον • (skúbalon) n (genitive σκῠβάλου); second declension

1. dung, excrement, manure
2. refuse, offal

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σκῠ́βᾰλον; τοῦ σκῠβᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σκῠ́βᾰλον tò skúbalon	τὼ σκῠβᾰ́λω tṑ skubálō	τᾰ̀ σκῠ́βᾰλᾰ tà skúbala
Genitive	τοῦ σκῠβᾰ́λου toû skubálou	τοῖν σκῠβᾰ́λοιν toîn skubáloin	τῶν σκῠβᾰ́λων tôn skubálōn
Dative	τῷ σκῠβᾰ́λῳ tôi skubálōi	τοῖν σκῠβᾰ́λοιν toîn skubáloin	τοῖς σκῠβᾰ́λοις toîs skubálois
Accusative	τὸ σκῠ́βᾰλον tò skúbalon	τὼ σκῠβᾰ́λω tṑ skubálō	τᾰ̀ σκῠ́βᾰλᾰ tà skúbala
Vocative	σκῠ́βᾰλον skúbalon	σκῠβᾰ́λω skubálō	σκῠ́βᾰλᾰ skúbala
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκυβαλίζω (skubalízō)
• σκυβαλικός (skubalikós)
• σκυβαλισμός (skubalismós)
• σκυβαλώδης (skubalṓdēs)

Descendants

• → English: scybala

Further reading

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