σκόλυμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Explained as of Pre-Greek origin. Compare also the Serbo-Croatian skolab, skulob of the same meaning, a term the Slavs could only have picked up, from Liburnian or its Vulgar Latin successor dialect, when reaching the Adriatic coast.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

σκόλῠμος • (skólŭmos) m or f (genitive σκολῠ́μου); second declension

  1. common golden thistle (Scolymus hispanicus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ / ἡ σκόλῠμος; τοῦ / τῆς σκολῠ́μου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ / ἡ σκόλῠμος
ho / hē skólŭmos 		τὼ σκολῠ́μω
tṑ skolŭ́mō 		οἱ / αἱ σκόλῠμοι
hoi / hai skólŭmoi
Genitive τοῦ / τῆς σκολῠ́μου
toû / tês skolŭ́mou 		τοῖν σκολῠ́μοιν
toîn skolŭ́moin 		τῶν σκολῠ́μων
tôn skolŭ́mōn
Dative τῷ / τῇ σκολῠ́μῳ
tōî / tēî skolŭ́mōi 		τοῖν σκολῠ́μοιν
toîn skolŭ́moin 		τοῖς / ταῖς σκολῠ́μοις
toîs / taîs skolŭ́mois
Accusative τὸν / τὴν σκόλῠμον
tòn / tḕn skólŭmon 		τὼ σκολῠ́μω
tṑ skolŭ́mō 		τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς σκολῠ́μους
toùs / tā̀s skolŭ́mous
Vocative σκόλῠμε
skólŭme 		σκολῠ́μω
skolŭ́mō 		σκόλῠμοι
skólŭmoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • σκολυμώδης (skolumṓdēs)

Descendants

  • → French: scolyme
  • → Italian: scolimo
  • → Latin: scolymos
  • → Translingual: Scolymus

Further reading

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