Etymology

skytale

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Ancient Greek σκυτάλη
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromσκυτάλη“club, baton, cylinder used for encoding and decoding”
  2. English todayskytale

From Ancient Greek σκυτάλη (skutálē, “club, baton, cylinder used for encoding and decoding”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσκυτάλη all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.