σκορπίος

See also: σκορπιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Sometimes suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”),[1] but Beekes says that it is likely a substrate loanword instead (see Beekes, R.S.P. (2010): Etymological Dictionary of Greek, p. 1358-1359)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skor.pí.os/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skorˈpi.os/

Noun

σκορπῐ́ος • (skorpíos) m (genitive σκορπῐ́ου); second declension

scorpion
scorpionfish (Scorpaena scrofa)
Synonym: σκόρπαινα (skórpaina)
scorpion furze (Genista acanthoclada)
Synonym: ἐχινόπους (ekhinópous)
scorpion root (Doronicum orientale)
(astronomy) Scorpio, a constellation
engine of war which discharged arrows

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ σκορπῐ́ος; τοῦ σκορπῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ σκορπῐ́ος ho skorpíos	τὼ σκορπῐ́ω tṑ skorpíō	οἱ σκορπῐ́οι hoi skorpíoi
Genitive	τοῦ σκορπῐ́ου toû skorpíou	τοῖν σκορπῐ́οιν toîn skorpíoin	τῶν σκορπῐ́ων tôn skorpíōn
Dative	τῷ σκορπῐ́ῳ tôi skorpíōi	τοῖν σκορπῐ́οιν toîn skorpíoin	τοῖς σκορπῐ́οις toîs skorpíois
Accusative	τὸν σκορπῐ́ον tòn skorpíon	τὼ σκορπῐ́ω tṑ skorpíō	τοὺς σκορπῐ́ους toùs skorpíous
Vocative	σκορπῐ́ε skorpíe	σκορπῐ́ω skorpíō	σκορπῐ́οι skorpíoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

σκόρπαινα (skórpaina)
σκόρπειος (skórpeios)
σκορπιακός (skorpiakós)
σκορπιανός (skorpianós)
σκορπίδιον (skorpídion)
σκορπίζω (skorpízō)
σκορπιόδηκτος (skorpiódēktos)
σκορπιοειδής (skorpioeidḗs)
σκορπιόεις (skorpióeis)
σκορπίοθεν (skorpíothen)
σκορπιοκτόνον (skorpioktónon)
σκορπιομάχος (skorpiomákhos)
σκορπίον (skorpíon)
σκορπιόομαι (skorpióomai)
σκορπιόπληκτος (skorpióplēktos)
σκορπίουρος (skorpíouros)
σκορπιοφόρος (skorpiophóros)
σκορπίς (skorpís)
σκόρπισις (skórpisis)
σκορπισμός (skorpismós)
σκορπιστής (skorpistḗs)
σκορπιστικός (skorpistikós)
σκορπῖτις (skorpîtis)
σκορπιώδης (skorpiṓdēs)

Descendants

Greek: σκορπιός m (skorpiós)
→ Latin: scorpiō, scorpios, scorpius
- →? Albanian: shkrap
- Catalan: escorpí
- Old French: scorpion
  - French: scorpion
  - → Middle Dutch: scorpioen
    - Dutch: schorpioen
  - → English: scorpion
    - → Welsh: sgorpion
- → German: Skorpion
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌾𐍉 (skaurpjō)
- → Middle Irish: scoirp
  - Irish: scairp
- Italian: scorpione
- >? Italian: sgorbio
- → Middle Low German: schorpie
- → Norwegian Bokmål: skorpion
- Portuguese: escorpião
- Romanian: scorpion
- Romansch: scorpiun
- → Russian: скорпио́н m (skorpión)
- Sicilian: scurpiuni
- Spanish: escorpión
→ Classical Sanskrit: कौर्पि (kaurpi)

References

Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scorpion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

“σκορπίος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σκορπίος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G4651 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- scorpion idem, page 741.

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