σκέπη

See also: σκεπή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Related to σκέπας (sképas), σκέπω (sképō). Although the stem looks Indo-European and could be projected back to a pre form *skep-, no good cognates are known. Only some Balto-Slavic forms like Lithuanian kepùre, Proto-Slavic *čepьcь (“bonnet”) may be connected, although these reflect an s-less stem *kep-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ské.pɛː/ → /ˈsce.pi/ → /ˈsce.pi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ské.pɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈske.pe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.pi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.pi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsce.pi/

Noun

σκέπη • (sképē) f (genitive σκέπης); first declension

1. cover, shelter
2. shade
3. protection

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκέπη; τῆς σκέπης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκέπη hē sképē	τὼ σκέπᾱ tṑ sképā	αἱ σκέπαι hai sképai
Genitive	τῆς σκέπης tês sképēs	τοῖν σκέπαιν toîn sképain	τῶν σκεπῶν tôn skepôn
Dative	τῇ σκέπῃ têi sképēi	τοῖν σκέπαιν toîn sképain	ταῖς σκέπαις taîs sképais
Accusative	τὴν σκέπην tḕn sképēn	τὼ σκέπᾱ tṑ sképā	τᾱ̀ς σκέπᾱς tā̀s sképās
Vocative	σκέπη sképē	σκέπᾱ sképā	σκέπαι sképai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “σκέπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκέπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cover idem, page 180.
  • protection idem, page 653.
  • shelter idem, page 764.
• 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