σκᾶπος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκάπος (skápos) — alternative reading

Etymology

Akin to σκῆπτρον (skêptron), σκᾶπτον (skâpton, “staff, scepter”). Compare also σκηπάνη (skēpánē), σκηπάνιον (skēpánion, “stick, scepter”), σκαπάνιον (skapánion, “staff, crutch”), and Latin scāpus, Albanian shkop.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skâː.pos/ → /ˈska.pos/ → /ˈska.pos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skâː.pos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pos/

Noun

σκᾶπος • (skâpos) m (hapax)

1. branch; name of a certain wind

   Synonym: κλάδος (kládos)

   • 5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Σ.857:

     σκάπος· κλάδος. καὶ ἄνεμος ποιός

     skápos; kládos. kaì ánemos poiós

     skápos: branch. and a certain wind

References

• “σκᾶπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκήπτομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1350