σκαμνίον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • σκαμνίν (skamnín)
  • σκαμνί (skamní)
  • σκάμνον (skámnon)

Etymology

Diminutive of Koine Greek σκάμνον (skámnon), borrowed from Latin scamnum.

Noun

σκαμνίον • (skamníon) f (plural σκαμνία)

  1. (Byzantine) bench
  2. (Byzantine) stool

Descendants

  • Greek: σκαμνί (skamní)
  • → Georgian: სკამი (sḳami)
  • → Old East Slavic: скамиꙗ (skamija)
    • Russian: скамья́ (skamʹjá), скамля́ (skamljá)
      • → Western Mari: скамня (skamnja)
    • Ukrainian: скамна́ (skamná), скамня́ (skamnjá), скам'я́ (skamʺjá)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: skámija

References

  • Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “σκαμνίον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 991b
  • Lampe, G. W. H. (1961), “σκαμνίον”, in A Patristic Greek Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1235b
  • Vasmer, Max (1973), “скамья”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress, page 632

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