σκύμνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been connected with σκύλαξ (skúlax, “puppy”), but the variation of the suffix remains unclear on this account. The suffix "-μν-" could point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ským.nos/ → /ˈscym.nos/ → /ˈscim.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ským.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskym.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscym.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscym.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈscim.nos/

Noun

σκύμνος • (skúmnos) m or f (genitive σκύμνου); second declension

1. cub, whelp, especially a lion's whelp
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.319
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.32
   • Eurypides, The Suppliants 1222
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1431, (Compare The Knights 1039)
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 987
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 699
   • Lasus 4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 6.18.5
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 6.27
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus 18
   1. (poetic, of men or women)
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1171, (Compare Rhesus 382)
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1213
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1388

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ σκῠ́μνος; τοῦ, τῆς σκῠ́μνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ σκῠ́μνος ho, hē skúmnos	τὼ σκῠ́μνω tṑ skúmnō	οἱ, αἱ σκῠ́μνοι hoi, hai skúmnoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς σκῠ́μνου toû, tês skúmnou	τοῖν σκῠ́μνοιν toîn skúmnoin	τῶν σκῠ́μνων tôn skúmnōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ σκῠ́μνῳ tôi, têi skúmnōi	τοῖν σκῠ́μνοιν toîn skúmnoin	τοῖς, ταῖς σκῠ́μνοις toîs, taîs skúmnois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν σκῠ́μνον tòn, tḕn skúmnon	τὼ σκῠ́μνω tṑ skúmnō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς σκῠ́μνους toùs, tā̀s skúmnous
Vocative	σκῠ́μνε skúmne	σκῠ́μνω skúmnō	σκῠ́μνοι skúmnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (cub): σκύλαξ (skúlax)

References

• “σκύμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκύμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σκύμνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cub idem, page 188.
  • whelp idem, page 975.
  • young idem, page 997.
• 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