σκύμνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The word has been connected with σκύλαξ (skúlax, “puppy”), but the variation of the suffix remains unclear on this account. The suffix "-μν-" could point to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ským.nos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskym.nos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscym.nos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscym.nos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈscim.nos/

Noun

σκύμνος • (skúmnos) m or f (genitive σκύμνου); second declension

cub, whelp, especially a lion's whelp
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.319
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.32
- Eurypides, The Suppliants 1222
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 1431, (Compare The Knights 1039)
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 987
- 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 699
- Lasus 4
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 6.18.5
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 6.27
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus 18
1. (poetic, of men or women)
  - 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1171, (Compare Rhesus 382)
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1213
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1388

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ / ἡ σκῠ́μνος; τοῦ / τῆς σκῠ́μνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ / ἡ σκῠ́μνος ho / hē skŭ́mnos	τὼ σκῠ́μνω tṑ skŭ́mnō	οἱ / αἱ σκῠ́μνοι hoi / hai skŭ́mnoi
Genitive	τοῦ / τῆς σκῠ́μνου toû / tês skŭ́mnou	τοῖν σκῠ́μνοιν toîn skŭ́mnoin	τῶν σκῠ́μνων tôn skŭ́mnōn
Dative	τῷ / τῇ σκῠ́μνῳ tōî / tēî skŭ́mnōi	τοῖν σκῠ́μνοιν toîn skŭ́mnoin	τοῖς / ταῖς σκῠ́μνοις toîs / taîs skŭ́mnois
Accusative	τὸν / τὴν σκῠ́μνον tòn / tḕn skŭ́mnon	τὼ σκῠ́μνω tṑ skŭ́mnō	τοὺς / τᾱ̀ς σκῠ́μνους toùs / tā̀s skŭ́mnous
Vocative	σκῠ́μνε skŭ́mne	σκῠ́μνω skŭ́mnō	σκῠ́μνοι skŭ́mnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

(cub): σκύλαξ (skúlax)

Descendants

→ Latin: scymnus
- → Translingual: Scymnus
  - → Russian: сци́мнус (scímnus)

References

“σκύμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σκύμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
σκύμνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cub idem, page 188.
- whelp idem, page 975.
- young idem, page 997.
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