σκυτάλη

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σκύταλον (skútalon)

Etymology

The origin is unknown.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sky.tá.lɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skyˈta.le/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skyˈta.li/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /scyˈta.li/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sciˈta.li/

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Noun

σκυτάλη • (skutálē) f (genitive σκυτάλης); first declension

A staff, a cudgel, a club
A baton used in Sparta as a cypher for writing dispatches
A pole or staff like those of a sedan chair
A strickle for levelling grain
A wooden tally or ticket on a money bag
A rod of metal or ivory
A scourge whip
A handle or lever in a machine
A handspike for turning a wheel
A sucker from a stem
A serpent of uniform roundness and thickness
(anatomy) A phalanx

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκυτάλη; τῆς σκυτάλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκυτάλη hē skutálē	τὼ σκυτάλᾱ tṑ skutálā	αἱ σκυτάλαι hai skutálai
Genitive	τῆς σκυτάλης tês skutálēs	τοῖν σκυτάλαιν toîn skutálain	τῶν σκυταλῶν tôn skutalôn
Dative	τῇ σκυτάλῃ têi skutálēi	τοῖν σκυτάλαιν toîn skutálain	ταῖς σκυτάλαις taîs skutálais
Accusative	τὴν σκυτάλην tḕn skutálēn	τὼ σκυτάλᾱ tṑ skutálā	τᾱ̀ς σκυτάλᾱς tā̀s skutálās
Vocative	σκυτάλη skutálē	σκυτάλᾱ skutálā	σκυτάλαι skutálai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

σκυταλίας (skutalías)
σκυτάλιον (skutálion)
σκυταλίς (skutalís)
σκυταλισμός (skutalismós)
σκυταλόομαι (skutalóomai)
σκυτάλωσις (skutálōsis)
σκυταλωτός (skutalōtós)

Descendants

Latin: scytale

References

σκυτάλη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σκυτάλη 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

Greek

Noun

σκυτάλη • (skytáli) f (plural σκυτάλες)

(athletics) baton (used in relay races)
(ancient history) stick used for carrying messages in ancient Sparta

Declension

declension of σκυτάλη

	singular	plural
nominative	σκυτάλα •	σκυτάλες •
genitive	σκυτάλας •	—
accusative	σκυτάλα •	σκυτάλες •
vocative	σκυτάλα •	σκυτάλες •
There is a rare genitive plural form: σκυταλών

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