ἀσκός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀκκόρ (akkór)

Etymology

Unknown. Not related to φάσκωλος (pháskōlos) as per Furnée.^[1] Perhaps related to ἀσκέω (askéō, “to process and work (raw materials, art, etc.)”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /as.kós/ → /asˈkos/ → /asˈkos/

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

Noun

ἀσκός • (askós) m (genitive ἀσκοῦ); second declension

1. skin, hide made into a bag
2. wineskin
3. paunch, belly
4. bellows
5. bagpipes

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀσκός ho askós	τὼ ἀσκώ tṑ askṓ	οἱ ἀσκοί hoi askoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκοῦ toû askoû	τοῖν ἀσκοῖν toîn askoîn	τῶν ἀσκῶν tôn askôn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκῷ tôi askôi	τοῖν ἀσκοῖν toîn askoîn	τοῖς ἀσκοῖς toîs askoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἀσκόν tòn askón	τὼ ἀσκώ tṑ askṓ	τοὺς ἀσκούς toùs askoús
Vocative	ἀσκέ aské	ἀσκώ askṓ	ἀσκοί askoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ ἀσκός; τοῦ ἀσκοῦ (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἀσκίδιον (askídion)
• ἀσκίον (askíon)
• ἀσκίτης (askítēs)
• ἀσκοθύλακος (askothúlakos)
• ἀσκοπήρα (askopḗra)
• ἀσκοπυτίνη (askoputínē)
• ἄσκωμα (áskōma)

 

Descendants

• → English: askos
• Greek: ασκός (askós)
• → New Latin: ascus
  • → English: ascus

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀσκός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151

Further reading

• “ἀσκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀσκός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀσκός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀσκός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)