μέσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A Semitic borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *mašk-; cognates are Armenian մաշկ (mašk, “skin, hide”), Arabic مَسْك (mask) and Classical Syriac ܡܫܟܐ (meškā, “skin”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

μέσκος • (méskos) m (genitive μέσκου); second declension

  1. sheepskin, fleece
    Synonym: κῴδιον (kṓidion)

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μέσκος; τοῦ μέσκου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ μέσκος
ho méskos		 τὼ μέσκω
tṑ méskō		 οἱ μέσκοι
hoi méskoi
Genitive τοῦ μέσκου
toû méskou		 τοῖν μέσκοιν
toîn méskoin		 τῶν μέσκων
tôn méskōn
Dative τῷ μέσκῳ
tôi méskōi		 τοῖν μέσκοιν
toîn méskoin		 τοῖς μέσκοις
toîs méskois
Accusative τὸν μέσκον
tòn méskon		 τὼ μέσκω
tṑ méskō		 τοὺς μέσκους
toùs méskous
Vocative μέσκε
méske		 μέσκω
méskō		 μέσκοι
méskoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading
  • “μέσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 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
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