βάσκανος

Connected with βάσκειν (báskein, “to slander”), which is probably from βάζω (bázō, “to speak, say”), but might be related to Latin fascinum (“witchcraft; penis”), in which case both would derive from a European substrate language.

βάσκᾰνος • (báskănos) m or f (neuter βάσκᾰνον); second declension

1. slanderous, envious, malignant, malicious

βάσκᾰνος • (báskănos) m (genitive βασκᾰ́νου); second declension

1. slanderer, defamer, talebearer
2. sorcerer, magician, bewitcher

• “βάσκανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βάσκανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βάσκανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάσκανος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abusive idem, page 5.
  • calumnious idem, page 110.
  • defamatory idem, page 203.
  • scandalous idem, page 737.
  • scurrilous idem, page 743.
  • slanderous idem, page 782.
• βάσκανος in Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fascinum/s”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN