ἄσκαρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The musical instrument was a square with strings, so it probably has nothing to do with the shoe. Furnée analyses the shoe as a suffix -αρος added to ἀσκός (askós, “skin, bag made of skin”). The similarity with ἀσκέρα (askéra, “winter shoe”) could also suggest a Pre-Greek origin of this word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ás.ka.ros/ → /ˈas.ka.ros/ → /ˈas.ka.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ás.ka.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ka.ros/

Noun

ἄσκᾰρος • (áskăros) m (genitive ἀσκᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. kind of castanet
2. kind of shoe

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἄσκᾰρος; τοῦ ἀσκᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἄσκᾰρος ho áskăros	τὼ ἀσκᾰ́ρω tṑ askắrō	οἱ ἄσκᾰροι hoi áskăroi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀσκᾰ́ρου toû askắrou	τοῖν ἀσκᾰ́ροιν toîn askắroin	τῶν ἀσκᾰ́ρων tôn askắrōn
Dative	τῷ ἀσκᾰ́ρῳ tôi askắrōi	τοῖν ἀσκᾰ́ροιν toîn askắroin	τοῖς ἀσκᾰ́ροις toîs askắrois
Accusative	τὸν ἄσκᾰρον tòn áskăron	τὼ ἀσκᾰ́ρω tṑ askắrō	τοὺς ἀσκᾰ́ρους toùs askắrous
Vocative	ἄσκᾰρε áskăre	ἀσκᾰ́ρω askắrō	ἄσκᾰροι áskăroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἄσκαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄσκαρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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