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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Proto-Germanic *hūdiz (“hide”), Latin cutis (“skin”) and Lithuanian kiáutas (“shell, case, envelop”). Related also to σκύνιον (skúnion, “skin of the brows”) and κύτος (kútos, “vessel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skŷː.tos/ → /ˈscy.tos/ → /ˈsci.tos/
Noun
σκῦτος • (skûtos) n (genitive σκῡ́τεος); third declension
- skin, hide, especially dressed or tanned
- leather thong, whip
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References
- “σκῦτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σκῦτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σκῦτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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