Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /skorpíos/

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

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

Noun

σκορπίος • ‎(skorpíos) m ‎(genitive σκορπίου); second declension

1. scorpion
2. scorpionfish
3. a prickly plant
4. an engine of war which discharged arrows

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: σκορπιός m ‎(skorpiós)
• Latin: scorpiō
• Russian: скорпио́н m ‎(skorpión), скорпе́на f ‎(skorpéna)

References

• 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’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.
  • scorpion idem, page 741.