σκαιός

Formally and semantically identical to Latin scaevus (“left”), both from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwos.

σκαιός • (skaiós) m (feminine σκαιᾱ́, neuter σκαιόν); first/second declension

1. left, on or with the left hand

   Synonyms: ἀριστερός (aristerós), λαιός (laiós)

   Antonym: δεξιός (dexiós)

2. western, westward
3. unlucky, ill-omened, mischievous
4. awkward, clumsy, stupid
5. (of serpents) aslant, crooked

• Greek: σκαιός (skaiós)

• “σκαιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σκαιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “σκαιός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• σκαιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σκαιός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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

From Ancient Greek, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-. Cognate with Latin scaevus.

σκαιός • (skaiós) m (feminine σκαιά or σκαιή, neuter σκαιό)

1. rude, impolite
2. rough
3. brusque

• αγενής (agenís, “rude, impolite”)
• ανάγωγος (anágogos, “uncouth, brusque”)
• άξεστος (áxestos, “crude, coarse”)