σκινδαψός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῐνδᾰψός (kindapsós)

Etymology

A foreign word like κιθάρα (kithára), βάρβιτος (bárbitos) and many other instrument names. It is of Pre-Greek origin, in view of the interchange σ-/zero.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skin.dap.sós/ → /scin.dapˈsos/ → /scin.dapˈsos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skin.dap.sós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skin.dapˈsos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /scin.dapˈsos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /scin.dapˈsos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /scin.dapˈsos/

Noun

σκῐνδᾰψός • (skindapsós) m (genitive σκῐνδᾰψοῦ); second declension

1. musical instrument with four strings
2. word without meaning, so-and-so

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σκῐνδᾰψός; τοῦ σκῐνδᾰψοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκῐνδᾰψός ho skindapsós	τὼ σκῐνδᾰψώ tṑ skindapsṓ	οἱ σκῐνδᾰψοί hoi skindapsoí
Genitive	τοῦ σκῐνδᾰψοῦ toû skindapsoû	τοῖν σκῐνδᾰψοῖν toîn skindapsoîn	τῶν σκῐνδᾰψῶν tôn skindapsôn
Dative	τῷ σκῐνδᾰψῷ tôi skindapsôi	τοῖν σκῐνδᾰψοῖν toîn skindapsoîn	τοῖς σκῐνδᾰψοῖς toîs skindapsoîs
Accusative	τὸν σκῐνδᾰψόν tòn skindapsón	τὼ σκῐνδᾰψώ tṑ skindapsṓ	τοὺς σκῐνδᾰψούς toùs skindapsoús
Vocative	σκῐνδᾰψέ skindapsé	σκῐνδᾰψώ skindapsṓ	σκῐνδᾰψοί skindapsoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκῐνδᾰψῐ́ζομαι (skindapsízomai)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Scindapsus

Further reading

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