Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• (skull): σκύπφος ‎(skúpphos)

Noun

σκῠ́φος • ‎(skúphos) m ‎(genitive σκῠ́φου); second declension
σκῠ́φος • ‎(skúphos) n ‎(genitive σκῠ́φεος or σκῠ́φους); third declension

1. a cup or can, especially one used by peasants
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.112
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 83
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 390
     , 411, 256, 556,
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 146
   • Epig. 3
   • 375 BCE – 275 BCE, Alexis 130
   • 450 BCE – 350 BCE, Archippus 7
   • Alcm. 34
   • Anacr. 82
   • 556 BCE – 468 BCE, Simonides, Collected Works 246
   • 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Bacchylides, Fr. 17
   • Sophr. 15
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 7.1324b.17
   1. of wooden milk-vessels
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 1.143
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 390
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 146
2. (perhaps) a skull
   • PMag.Par. 1.1996

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Translingual: Austroscyphus, Scyphozoa
• Classical Syriac:
  • Eastern: ܐܸܣܩܦܵܐ ‎(ʾesqəp̄āʾ)
  • Western: ܐܶܣܩܦܳܐ ‎(ʾesqəp̄āʾ)

References

• σκύφος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σκύφος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σκύφος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cup idem, page 189.
  • goblet idem, page 365.

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σκύφος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 1363-1364