σκίλλα

Ancient Greek

σκίλλα – Drimia maritima

Etymology

Unexplained foreign word, but probably of Pre-Greek origin. Compare Mingrelian შქიშქილა (škiškila, “a kind of garlic”, literally “young, tender, fresh”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skíl.la/ → /ˈscil.la/ → /ˈsci.la/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skíl.la/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈskil.la/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscil.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscil.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.la/

Noun

σκῐ́λλᾰ • (skílla) f (genitive σκῐ́λλης); first declension

1. squill (the name of various plants of the genus Scilla, and particularly Drimia maritima)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκῐ́λλᾰ; τῆς σκῐ́λλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκῐ́λλᾰ hē skílla	τὼ σκῐ́λλᾱ tṑ skíllā	αἱ σκῐ́λλαι hai skíllai
Genitive	τῆς σκῐ́λλης tês skíllēs	τοῖν σκῐ́λλαιν toîn skíllain	τῶν σκῐλλῶν tôn skillôn
Dative	τῇ σκῐ́λλῃ têi skíllēi	τοῖν σκῐ́λλαιν toîn skíllain	ταῖς σκῐ́λλαις taîs skíllais
Accusative	τὴν σκῐ́λλᾰν tḕn skíllan	τὼ σκῐ́λλᾱ tṑ skíllā	τᾱ̀ς σκῐ́λλᾱς tā̀s skíllās
Vocative	σκῐ́λλᾰ skílla	σκῐ́λλᾱ skíllā	σκῐ́λλαι skíllai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σκῐλλώδης (skillṓdēs)
• σκῐ́λλῐνος (skíllinos)
• σκῐλλῑ́της (skillī́tēs)
• σκῐλλῑτῐκός (skillītikós)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: إشْقِيل (ʔišqīl), إسْقِيل (ʔisqīl)
  • → Medieval Hebrew: אישקיל (ʾišqī́l)
• → Classical Syriac: ܣܩܠܐ (sqillā), ܣܩܝܠܐ (sqīlā), ܐܣܩܝܠ (ʾəsqīl)
• → Latin: scilla
  • Translingual: Scilla
  • → English: squill
  • → French: scille
  • → Italian: scilla
  • → Spanish: esquila
  • → Swedish: scilla

Further reading

• “σκίλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκίλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σκίλλα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1351