σκοίκιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from Pre-Greek and related to κόϊξ (kóïx, “doum palm”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skǒi̯.ki.on/ → /ˈscy.ci.on/ → /ˈsci.ci.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skǒi̯.ki.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsky.ki.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ci.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ci.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ci.on/

Noun

σκοίκιον • (skoíkion) n (genitive σκοικίου); second declension

1. vessel or receptacle of some kind

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σκοίκιον; τοῦ σκοικίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σκοίκιον tò skoíkion	τὼ σκοικίω tṑ skoikíō	τᾰ̀ σκοίκιᾰ tà skoíkia
Genitive	τοῦ σκοικίου toû skoikíou	τοῖν σκοικίοιν toîn skoikíoin	τῶν σκοικίων tôn skoikíōn
Dative	τῷ σκοικίῳ tôi skoikíōi	τοῖν σκοικίοιν toîn skoikíoin	τοῖς σκοικίοις toîs skoikíois
Accusative	τὸ σκοίκιον tò skoíkion	τὼ σκοικίω tṑ skoikíō	τᾰ̀ σκοίκιᾰ tà skoíkia
Vocative	σκοίκιον skoíkion	σκοικίω skoikíō	σκοίκιᾰ skoíkia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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