ἀσχίον
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
According to Lewy, from Hebrew אֶשֶׁךְ (ʾéšeḵ, “testicle”), because of its similar form. He further compares ὄρχις (órkhis), which means both "testicle" and "salep".
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /as.kʰí.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /asˈkʰi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /asˈçi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /asˈçi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /asˈçi.on/
Noun edit
ἀσχῐ́ον • (askhíon) n (genitive ἀσχῐ́ου); second declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἀσχῐ́ον tò askhíon |
τὼ ἀσχῐ́ω tṑ askhíō |
τᾰ̀ ἀσχῐ́ᾰ tà askhía | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀσχῐ́ου toû askhíou |
τοῖν ἀσχῐ́οιν toîn askhíoin |
τῶν ἀσχῐ́ων tôn askhíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀσχῐ́ῳ tôi askhíōi |
τοῖν ἀσχῐ́οιν toîn askhíoin |
τοῖς ἀσχῐ́οις toîs askhíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἀσχῐ́ον tò askhíon |
τὼ ἀσχῐ́ω tṑ askhíō |
τᾰ̀ ἀσχῐ́ᾰ tà askhía | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀσχῐ́ον askhíon |
ἀσχῐ́ω askhíō |
ἀσχῐ́ᾰ askhía | ||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- “ἀσχίον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀσχίον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀσχίον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
- Lewy, Heinrich (1895) Die semitischen Fremdwörter im Griechischen (in German), Berlin: R. Gaertner’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31