ὕσκλος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὕσχλος (húskhlos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, the word is clearly Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hýs.klos/ → /ˈys.klos/ → /ˈis.klos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hýs.klos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ys.klos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈys.klos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈys.klos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈis.klos/

Noun

ὕσκλος • (húsklos) m (genitive ὕσκλου); second declension

1. the latchet or eyelet of a sandal

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́σκλος; τοῦ ῠ̔́σκλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔́σκλος ho hŭ́sklos	τὼ ῠ̔́σκλω tṑ hŭ́sklō	οἱ ῠ̔́σκλοι hoi hŭ́skloi
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́σκλου toû hŭ́sklou	τοῖν ῠ̔́σκλοιν toîn hŭ́skloin	τῶν ῠ̔́σκλων tôn hŭ́sklōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́σκλῳ tôi hŭ́sklōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́σκλοιν toîn hŭ́skloin	τοῖς ῠ̔́σκλοις toîs hŭ́sklois
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́σκλον tòn hŭ́sklon	τὼ ῠ̔́σκλω tṑ hŭ́sklō	τοὺς ῠ̔́σκλους toùs hŭ́sklous
Vocative	ῠ̔́σκλε hŭ́skle	ῠ̔́σκλω hŭ́sklō	ῠ̔́σκλοι hŭ́skloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑσκλωτός (husklōtós)

Further reading

• “ὕσκλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὕσκλος 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, →ISBN