σκυτάλη

Ancient Greek

The origin is unknown.

σκῠτάλη • (skŭtálē) f (genitive σκῠτάλης); first declension

A staff, a cudgel, a club
(historical) A scytale, a baton used in Sparta as a cypher for writing dispatches
A pole or staff like those of a sedan chair
A strickle for levelling grain
A wooden tally or ticket on a money bag
A rod of metal or ivory
A scourge whip
A handle or lever in a machine
A handspike for turning a wheel
A sucker from a stem
A serpent of uniform roundness and thickness
(anatomy) A phalanx

First declension of ἡ σκῠτάλη; τῆς σκῠτάλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκῠτάλη hē skŭtálē	τὼ σκῠτάλᾱ tṑ skŭtálā	αἱ σκῠτάλαι hai skŭtálai
Genitive	τῆς σκῠτάλης tês skŭtálēs	τοῖν σκῠτάλαιν toîn skŭtálain	τῶν σκῠταλῶν tôn skŭtalôn
Dative	τῇ σκῠτάλῃ tēî skŭtálēi	τοῖν σκῠτάλαιν toîn skŭtálain	ταῖς σκῠτάλαις taîs skŭtálais
Accusative	τὴν σκῠτάλην tḕn skŭtálēn	τὼ σκῠτάλᾱ tṑ skŭtálā	τᾱ̀ς σκῠτάλᾱς tā̀s skŭtálās
Vocative	σκῠτάλη skŭtálē	σκῠτάλᾱ skŭtálā	σκῠτάλαι skŭtálai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

→ Arabic: إِسْقَاطُولِيّ (ʔisqāṭūliyy, “the beam of wood or handle or lever used in simple machines”)
→ English: skytale
> Greek: σκυτάλη (skytáli) (inherited)
→ Latin: scytalē
- → English: scytale

σκυτάλη • (skytáli) f (plural σκυτάλες)

There is a rare genitive plural form: σκυταλών