σκυταλισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σκυτάλη (skutálē) or σκύταλον (skútalon, “club”) +‎ -ισμός (-ismós, -ism: forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σκῠτᾰλισμός • (skŭtălismós) m (genitive σκῠτᾰλισμοῦ); third declension

  1. clubbing, bludgeoning, cudgeling, the act or an instance of beating someone or something with a club (σκυτάλη), especially (historical) the Scytalism, the mass clubbing of wealthy Argives in 370 BC.

Declension

Second declension of ὁ σκῠτᾰλῐσμός; τοῦ σκῠτᾰλῐσμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ σκῠτᾰλῐσμός
ho skŭtălĭsmós 		τὼ σκῠτᾰλῐσμώ
tṑ skŭtălĭsmṓ 		οἱ σκῠτᾰλῐσμοί
hoi skŭtălĭsmoí
Genitive τοῦ σκῠτᾰλῐσμοῦ
toû skŭtălĭsmoû 		τοῖν σκῠτᾰλῐσμοῖν
toîn skŭtălĭsmoîn 		τῶν σκῠτᾰλῐσμῶν
tôn skŭtălĭsmôn
Dative τῷ σκῠτᾰλῐσμῷ
tōî skŭtălĭsmōî 		τοῖν σκῠτᾰλῐσμοῖν
toîn skŭtălĭsmoîn 		τοῖς σκῠτᾰλῐσμοῖς
toîs skŭtălĭsmoîs
Accusative τὸν σκῠτᾰλῐσμόν
tòn skŭtălĭsmón 		τὼ σκῠτᾰλῐσμώ
tṑ skŭtălĭsmṓ 		τοὺς σκῠτᾰλῐσμούς
toùs skŭtălĭsmoús
Vocative σκῠτᾰλῐσμέ
skŭtălĭsmé 		σκῠτᾰλῐσμώ
skŭtălĭsmṓ 		σκῠτᾰλῐσμοί
skŭtălĭsmoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → English: Skytalism
  • → Latin: Scytalismus
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