σκολόπενδρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Suggested to be a combination of σκόλοψ (skólops, “thorn”) and ἔντερον (énteron, “earthworm”), but Beekes finds this unconvincing and suggests Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sko.ló.pen.dra/ → /skoˈlo.pen.dra/ → /skoˈlo.pen.dra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sko.ló.pen.dra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skoˈlo.pen.dra/

Noun

σκολόπενδρᾰ • (skolópendra) f (genitive σκολοπένδρᾱς); first declension

1. millipede
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.5,6
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 4.7,4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 4.1,6
   1. the sea scolopendra, an animal from the genus Nereis
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 2.14,2

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκολόπενδρᾰ; τῆς σκολοπένδρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκολόπενδρᾰ hē skolópendra	τὼ σκολοπένδρᾱ tṑ skolopéndrā	αἱ σκολόπενδραι hai skolópendrai
Genitive	τῆς σκολοπένδρᾱς tês skolopéndrās	τοῖν σκολοπένδραιν toîn skolopéndrain	τῶν σκολοπενδρῶν tôn skolopendrôn
Dative	τῇ σκολοπένδρᾳ têi skolopéndrāi	τοῖν σκολοπένδραιν toîn skolopéndrain	ταῖς σκολοπένδραις taîs skolopéndrais
Accusative	τὴν σκολόπενδρᾰν tḕn skolópendran	τὼ σκολοπένδρᾱ tṑ skolopéndrā	τᾱ̀ς σκολοπένδρᾱς tā̀s skolopéndrās
Vocative	σκολόπενδρᾰ skolópendra	σκολοπένδρᾱ skolopéndrā	σκολόπενδραι skolópendrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκολοπένδρειος (skolopéndreios)
• σκολοπένδριον (skolopéndrion)
• σκολοπενδρώδης (skolopendrṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Italian: scolopendra
• → French: scolopendre
• → Russian: сколопендра (skolopendra)

Further reading

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

Greek

Alternative forms

• σκολόπεντρα f (skolópentra)

Noun

σκολόπενδρα • (skolópendra) f (plural σκολόπενδρες)

1. centipede

Declension

Declension of σκολόπενδρα

	singular	plural
nominative	σκολόπενδρα •	σκολόπενδρες •
genitive	σκολόπενδρας •	σκολοπενδρών •
accusative	σκολόπενδρα •	σκολόπενδρες •
vocative	σκολόπενδρα •	σκολόπενδρες •

Synonyms

• σαρανταποδαρούσα f (sarantapodaroúsa)

Further reading

• Σαρανταποδαρούσα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el