English
Scytalismus
Scytalismus comes from Ancient Greek σκυταλισμός ‘clubbing’, and goes back to σκυτάλη ‘a staff, a cudgel, a club’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσκυτάλη‘a staff, a cudgel, a club’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEσκυταλισμόςskutalismós‘clubbing’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEScytalismus
- Englishearliest quotation 1837same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEσκυτάλη‘a staff, a cudgel, a club’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEσκυταλισμόςskutalismós‘clubbing’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEScytalismus
- Englishearliest quotation 1837same form
Earliest quotation: 1837, Edmund Woolrych translating Ernst Wilhel, Vol. II: “After the subversion of oligarchy in the Peloponnesian war,…”
Every English word from Ancient Greek σκυτάλη
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