Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σκᾶπτον ‎(skâpton) (Doric)
• σκᾶπτρον ‎(skâptron)
• σκᾶπος ‎(skâpos) (Doric)

Noun

σκῆπτρον • ‎(skêptron) n ‎(genitive σκήπτρου); second declension

1. a staff, stick to lean on, used by lame or aged persons
   • Homer, Iliad 18.416
   • Homer, Odyssey 13.437
   • Homer, Odyssey 14.31
   • Homer, Odyssey 17.199
2. a staff, baton, especially as the badge of command, sceptre
   • Homer, Iliad 2.100
   1. royalty, kingly power, rule
      • Homer, Iliad 6.159
      • Homer, Iliad 9.38
3. (in LXX) tribe

Inflection

Synonyms

• (tribe): φυλή ‎(phulḗ)

Descendants

• Russian: скипетр ‎(skipetr)

References

• σκῆπτρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σκῆπτρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σκῆπτρον» 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.
  • cane idem, page 110.
  • crook idem, page 185.
  • mace idem, page 506.
  • rule idem, page 725.
  • sceptre idem, page 738.
  • staff idem, page 808.
  • stick idem, page 816.
  • throne idem, page 870.
  • walking stick idem, page 960.
  • wand idem, page 961.
• LSJ 8th edition