σκύνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, the word derives from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) and belongs together with Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“shelter, shack”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, obscure”), so that an r/n-stem is supposed. With a suffix -l-, there is σκύλος (skúlos, “animal's skin, hide”), σκῦλα (skûla, “spolia”). Perhaps the root is seen in Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers, protects”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ský.ni.on/ → /ˈscy.ni.on/ → /ˈsci.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ský.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsky.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscy.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsci.ni.on/

Noun

σκῠ́νῐον • (skúnion) n (genitive σκῠνῐ́ου); second declension

1. skin above the eyebrows

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σκῠ́νῐον; τοῦ σκῠνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σκῠ́νῐον tò skúnion	τὼ σκῠνῐ́ω tṑ skuníō	τᾰ̀ σκῠ́νῐᾰ tà skúnia
Genitive	τοῦ σκῠνῐ́ου toû skuníou	τοῖν σκῠνῐ́οιν toîn skuníoin	τῶν σκῠνῐ́ων tôn skuníōn
Dative	τῷ σκῠνῐ́ῳ tôi skuníōi	τοῖν σκῠνῐ́οιν toîn skuníoin	τοῖς σκῠνῐ́οις toîs skuníois
Accusative	τὸ σκῠ́νῐον tò skúnion	τὼ σκῠνῐ́ω tṑ skuníō	τᾰ̀ σκῠ́νῐᾰ tà skúnia
Vocative	σκῠ́νῐον skúnion	σκῠνῐ́ω skuníō	σκῠ́νῐᾰ skúnia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐπῐσκῠ́νῐον (episkúnion)

Further reading

• “σκύνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκύνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐπισκύνιον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 444