ἀσκητής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀσκέω (askéō) +‎ -τής (-tḗs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.kɛː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /as.ciˈtis/ → /as.ciˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /as.kɛː.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /as.ke̝ˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /as.ciˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /as.ciˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /as.ciˈtis/

Noun

ἀσκητής • (askētḗs) m (genitive ἀσκητοῦ); first declension

1. one who practices any art or trade
2. athlete trained for the arena

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀσκητής ho askētḗs	τὼ ἀσκητᾱ́ tṑ askētā́	οἱ ἀσκηταί hoi askētaí
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκητοῦ toû askētoû	τοῖν ἀσκηταῖν toîn askētaîn	τῶν ἀσκητῶν tôn askētôn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκητῇ tôi askētêi	τοῖν ἀσκηταῖν toîn askētaîn	τοῖς ἀσκηταῖς toîs askētaîs
Accusative	τὸν ἀσκητήν tòn askētḗn	τὼ ἀσκητᾱ́ tṑ askētā́	τοὺς ἀσκητᾱ́ς toùs askētā́s
Vocative	ἀσκητᾰ́ askētá	ἀσκητᾱ́ askētā́	ἀσκηταί askētaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ὁ ἀσκητής; τοῦ ἀσκητοῦ (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἀσκητικός (askētikós)

Descendants

Descendants of ἀσκητής

• → Albanian: asket
• → Czech: asketa
• → Esperanto: asketo
• → German: Asket
• → Hungarian: aszkéta
• → Late Latin: ascēta
  • → Dutch: asceet
  • →⇒ Irish: aiséiteach, aiséitiúil
  • Italian: asceta
  • → Polish: asceta
  • Portuguese: asceta
  • Spanish: asceta
  • → Swedish: asket
• → Macedonian: аскет (asket)
• → Russian: аске́т (askét)
• → Ukrainian: аске́т (askét)

Further reading

• ἀσκητής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσκητής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀσκητής”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἀσκητής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • athlete idem, page 49.
  • gymnast idem, page 380.