σκῶλος

See also: Σκῶλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκῶλον (skôlon)

Etymology

The word resembles σκόλοψ (skólops, “palisade”) and, outside Greek, Albanian hell (“icicle; skewer”), Lithuanian kuõlas (“pole”) and Proto-Slavic *kolъ (“stake”). Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to hew”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skɔ̂ː.los/ → /ˈsko.los/ → /ˈsko.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skɔ̂ː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.los/

Noun

σκῶλος • (skôlos) m (genitive σκώλου); second declension

1. A pointed stake
2. A thorn, a prickle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σκῶλος; τοῦ σκώλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκῶλος ho skôlos	τὼ σκώλω tṑ skṓlō	οἱ σκῶλοι hoi skôloi
Genitive	τοῦ σκώλου toû skṓlou	τοῖν σκώλοιν toîn skṓloin	τῶν σκώλων tôn skṓlōn
Dative	τῷ σκώλῳ tôi skṓlōi	τοῖν σκώλοιν toîn skṓloin	τοῖς σκώλοις toîs skṓlois
Accusative	τὸν σκῶλον tòn skôlon	τὼ σκώλω tṑ skṓlō	τοὺς σκώλους toùs skṓlous
Vocative	σκῶλε skôle	σκώλω skṓlō	σκῶλοι skôloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκωλοβάτης (skōlobátēs)
• σκωλοβατίζω (skōlobatízō)

Further reading

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