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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Related to σκέπας (sképas), σκέπω (sképō). Although the stem looks Indo-European and could be projected back to a pre form *skep-, no good cognates are known. Only some Balto-Slavic forms like Lithuanian kepùre, Proto-Slavic *čepьcь (“bonnet”) may be connected, although these reflect an s-less stem *kep-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ské.pɛː/ → /ˈsce.pi/ → /ˈsce.pi/
Noun
σκέπη • (sképē) f (genitive σκέπης); first declension
- cover, shelter
- shade
- protection
Inflection
Further reading
- “σκέπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκέπη 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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