σκύφος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• (skull): σκύπφος (skúpphos)

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

Noun

σκῠ́φος • (skúphos) m (genitive σκῠ́φου); second declension
σκῠ́φος • (skúphos) n (genitive σκῠ́φεος or σκῠ́φους); third declension

1. a cup or can, especially one used by peasants
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.112
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 83
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 390
     , 411, 256, 556,
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 146
   • Epig. 3
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 130
   • 450 BCE – 350 BCE, Archippus 7
   • Alcm. 34
   • Anacr. 82
   • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Fragmenta 246
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Fr. 17
   • Sophr. 15
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 7.1324b.17
   1. of wooden milk-vessels
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 1.143
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 390
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 146
2. (perhaps) a skull
   • PMag.Par. 1.1996

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• ⇒ Translingual: Austroscyphus, Scyphozoa
• → Classical Syriac: ܐܣܩܦܐ (ʾesqəp̄āʾ)
  • → Old Armenian: սկահ (skah)
    • → Armenian: սկահ (skah) (learned)
    • →? Georgian: სკა (sḳa)
• → Latin: scyphus
  • → Catalan: escif (learned)
  • Sicilian: scifu
  • → English: scyphus

References

Further reading

• “σκύφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκύφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σκύφος 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cup idem, page 189.
  • goblet idem, page 365.