ἴσκαι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὕσκαι (húskai)

Etymology

Unknown. If the variant is reliable, it would point to a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ís.kai̯/ → /ˈis.cɛ/ → /ˈis.ce/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ís.kai̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈis.kɛ/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈis.cɛ/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ce/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ce/

Noun

ἴσκαι • (ískai) f (genitive ἰσκῶν); first declension

1. (in the plural) fungus growing on oaks and walnut trees, used as a cautery

Declension

First declension of αἱ ἴσκαι; τῶν ἰσκῶν (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	αἱ ἴσκαι hai ískai
Genitive	τῶν ἰσκῶν tôn iskôn
Dative	ταῖς ἴσκαις taîs ískais
Accusative	τᾱ̀ς ἴσκᾱς tā̀s ískās
Vocative	ἴσκαι ískai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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