σκῶλος

See also: Σκῶλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • σκῶλον (skôlon)

Etymology

The word resembles σκόλοψ (skólops, “palisade”) and, outside Greek, Albanian hell (“icicle; skewer”), Lithuanian kuõlas (“pole”) and Proto-Slavic *kolъ (“stake”). Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to hew”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

σκῶλος • (skôlos) m (genitive σκώλου); second declension

  1. pointed stake
  2. thorn, prickle

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ σκῶλος; τοῦ σκώλου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ σκῶλος
ho skôlos		 τὼ σκώλω
tṑ skṓlō		 οἱ σκῶλοι
hoi skôloi
Genitive τοῦ σκώλου
toû skṓlou		 τοῖν σκώλοιν
toîn skṓloin		 τῶν σκώλων
tôn skṓlōn
Dative τῷ σκώλῳ
tôi skṓlōi		 τοῖν σκώλοιν
toîn skṓloin		 τοῖς σκώλοις
toîs skṓlois
Accusative τὸν σκῶλον
tòn skôlon		 τὼ σκώλω
tṑ skṓlō		 τοὺς σκώλους
toùs skṓlous
Vocative σκῶλε
skôle		 σκώλω
skṓlō		 σκῶλοι
skôloi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • σκωλοβᾰ́της (skōlobátēs)
  • σκωλοβᾰτῐ́ζω (skōlobatízō)

Further reading
  • “σκῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “σκῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “σκῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • σκῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • σκῶλος 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
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