Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /skýθis/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /scýθis/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /scíθis/

Noun

Σκύθης • ‎(Skúthēs) m ‎(genitive Σκύθου); first declension

1. an inhabitant of Scythia; a Scythian
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.2.1

     Τοὺς δὲ δούλους οἱ Σκύθαι πάντας τυφλοῦσι τοῦ γάλακτος εἵνεκεν τοῦ πίνουσι ποιεῦντες ὧδε.‎

     Toùs dè doúlous hoi Skúthai pántas tuphloûsi toû gálaktos heíneken toû pínousi poieûntes hôde.

     Now the Scythians blind all their slaves, to use them in preparing their milk.

Inflection

Derived terms

• Σκύθαινα f ‎(Skúthaina)
• Σκυθία ‎(Skuthía)
• Σκυθική ‎(Skuthikḗ)
• Σκυθικός ‎(Skuthikós)
• Σκυθιστί ‎(Skuthistí)

Descendants

• Greek: Σκύθης ‎(Skýthis)
  • plural: Σκύθες ‎(Skýthes)
• Latin: Scythes (plural Scythae)
• Old Armenian: սկիւթ ‎(skiwtʿ)
  • Armenian: սկյութ ‎(skyutʿ)

References

• Σκύθης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “G4658”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025