σκέλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skélos (“curve, bending”), from *(s)kel- (“to curve, bend”).

Possibly related are σκελίς (skelís), σχελίς (skhelís, “rib(s) (of beef)”), but these may instead be from *(s)kelH- (“to cut, carve, split”) (cf. σκάλλω (skállō), σκύλλω (skúllō)), or Pre-Greek.

Noun

σκέλος • (skélos) n (genitive σκέλεος); third declension

1. (anatomy) leg

Declension

Derived terms

• ἰσοσκελής (isoskelḗs)
• τετρασκελής (tetraskelḗs)
  • τετρασκέλιον (tetraskélion)

References

• Frisk, Hjalmar (1970) “σκέλος”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 723–724
• 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
• “σκέλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκέλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• σκέλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G4628 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 484
• “σκέλος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsce.los/

Noun

σκέλος • (skélos) n

1. leg
2. part (distinct element of anything consisting of alike elements)

Declension

Further reading

• σκέλος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.