σκέπας
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editUnknown. Although σκέπω (sképō, “to cover, shelter”) seems primary at first sight, it is attested only late, which may indicate that it should rather be interpreted as a back-formation from the denominative verb σκεπάζω (skepázō) or from σκέπη (sképē). 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 and Proto-Slavic *čepьcь (“bonnet”) may be connected, although these reflect an s-less stem *kep-.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ské.pas/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈske.pas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsce.pas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsce.pas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsce.pas/
Noun
editσκέπᾰς • (sképas) n (genitive σκέπᾰος); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σκέπᾰς tò sképas |
τὼ σκέπᾰε tṑ sképae |
τᾰ̀ σκέπᾰᾰ tà sképaa | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σκέπᾰος toû sképaos |
τοῖν σκεπᾰ́οιν toîn skepáoin |
τῶν σκεπᾰ́ων tôn skepáōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σκέπᾰῐ̈ tôi sképaï |
τοῖν σκεπᾰ́οιν toîn skepáoin |
τοῖς σκέπᾰσῐ / σκέπᾰσῐν toîs sképasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σκέπᾰς tò sképas |
τὼ σκέπᾰε tṑ sképae |
τᾰ̀ σκέπᾰᾰ tà sképaa | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκέπᾰς sképas |
σκέπᾰε sképae |
σκέπᾰᾰ sképaa | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “σκέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σκέπας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “σκέπας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- σκέπας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σκέπας in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκέπας”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1347