σκῖρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκίρρος (skírrhos)

Etymology

According to Furnée, from Pre-Greek and related to σκῦρος (skûros, “chippings of stone”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skîː.ros/ → /ˈsci.ros/ → /ˈsci.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skîː.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈski.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ros/

Noun

σκῖρος • (skîros) m (genitive σκίρου); second declension

1. A scrub, hard land overgrown with bushes
2. (oncology) A hardened swelling or tumour
3. An induration, a callus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σκῖρος; τοῦ σκῑ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκῖρος ho skîros	τὼ σκῑ́ρω tṑ skī́rō	οἱ σκῖροι hoi skîroi
Genitive	τοῦ σκῑ́ρου toû skī́rou	τοῖν σκῑ́ροιν toîn skī́roin	τῶν σκῑ́ρων tôn skī́rōn
Dative	τῷ σκῑ́ρῳ tôi skī́rōi	τοῖν σκῑ́ροιν toîn skī́roin	τοῖς σκῑ́ροις toîs skī́rois
Accusative	τὸν σκῖρον tòn skîron	τὼ σκῑ́ρω tṑ skī́rō	τοὺς σκῑ́ρους toùs skī́rous
Vocative	σκῖρε skîre	σκῑ́ρω skī́rō	σκῖροι skîroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκιρία (skiría)
• σκιρίτης (skirítēs)
• σκιρόομαι (skiróomai)
• σκιρός (skirós)
• σκιρώδης (skirṓdēs)
• σκίρωμα (skírōma)
• σκίρωσις (skírōsis)

Descendants

• → Latin: scirros
• → Ottoman Turkish: سكیروس (sekiros)

Further reading

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