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 tôi, têi 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)

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, 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