ἄσκυρον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἄσκυρος (áskuros), σκύρον (skúron)

Etymology

According to Furnée, the prothetic vowel points to Pre-Greek origin. On the other hand, Lewy connects the word with Hebrew שחור (shakhór, “black”), because the leaves of this plant have small black dots.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ás.ky.ron/ → /ˈas.cy.ron/ → /ˈas.ci.ron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ás.ky.ron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ky.ron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.cy.ron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.cy.ron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ci.ron/

Noun

ἄσκῠρον • (áskuron) n (genitive ἀσκῠ́ρου); second declension

1. St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)

   Synonyms: ἀνδρόσαιμον (andrósaimon), ὑπέρεικος (hupéreikos)

2. water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)

   Synonym: ἄλισμα (álisma)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄσκῠρον; τοῦ ἀσκῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄσκῠρον tò áskuron	τὼ ἀσκῠ́ρω tṑ askúrō	τᾰ̀ ἄσκῠρᾰ tà áskura
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκῠ́ρου toû askúrou	τοῖν ἀσκῠ́ροιν toîn askúroin	τῶν ἀσκῠ́ρων tôn askúrōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκῠ́ρῳ tôi askúrōi	τοῖν ἀσκῠ́ροιν toîn askúroin	τοῖς ἀσκῠ́ροις toîs askúrois
Accusative	τὸ ἄσκῠρον tò áskuron	τὼ ἀσκῠ́ρω tṑ askúrō	τᾰ̀ ἄσκῠρᾰ tà áskura
Vocative	ἄσκῠρον áskuron	ἀσκῠ́ρω askúrō	ἄσκῠρᾰ áskura
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀσκυροειδές (askuroeidés)

Descendants

• → Latin: ascyron

Further reading

• “ἄσκυρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄσκυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄσκυρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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
• Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47