Talk:Skete

Doubt
The term skete really exists? It's not a greek form of ascetic? --Aldney (talk) 01:26, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * See the OED(Oxford English Dictionary) for early uses.
 * 1869   H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 68   When a number of these retreats
 * are assembled round a central church, a skete (ἀσκητήριον) is formed, which
 * in some cases differs from a monastery only in not possessing an independent constitution.
 * 1887   J. A. L. Riley Athos 79   The sketes, or priories, have no voice in
 * the government of the community.


 * Also see ''Monasticism in the Orthodox churches: being an introduction to the study of modern Hellenic and
 * Slavonic monachism and the Orthodox profession rites, together with a Greek dissertation on the monastic habit,
 * done in English, with notes'' ( books.google.com )
 * -- Skandha101 • 03:41, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * A note(partly copied from Wadi El Natrun talk page):
 * Skete vs Sketis; based on Greek dictionaries (e.g.1) the former is probably wrong when used in the sense written in this article cause only the latter word dating from the Hellenistic period is of the toponym, i.e. the name of the Aegyptian place-desert, while the former word was derived in Greek in medieval times from the latter denoting the monastic-ascetic meaning.An alternative also btw attested form of Sketis (Σκῆτις) in Greek (according to this) is Skitis (Σκίτις).Moreover no possibility of derivation of skete from askesis-asketes-... is present in these (at least two major) sources.Finally, while these sources don't go,expand further on whether Sketis is the Greek derived form of an original Coptic word(something I can't and won't dispute) and while(and because) I certainly don't know Coptic, as I've already said the derivation and creation of Skete from Sketis to denote the ascetic-monastic meaning, according to these sources, was made in Greek.In other words the Coptic word seems to be in this case only a toponymic one that while probably being the ultimate root, didn't have the monastic meaning in Coptic at the time(to Coptic speakers out there: how about now or later?can you anyway help?);it was (again according to the Greek dict.) in Greek that this new word and meaning was created during the medieval, i.e. Byzantine times...Thanatos|talk 09:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Sancti Angeli
The link to the monastery is broken... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.181.239 (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

The new skete orders
Some attention should be placed on the fact that the skete order is still in place besides the outside link to one site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomstrange (talk • contribs) 18:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Notable early Skete leader Saint Macarius
In the second paragraph under the heading "Notable early Skete leader Saint Macarius," the first sentence needs correcting. It does not make sense as it is. Something is missing. I do not know enough about the subject to correct it.CorinneSD (talk) 15:38, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Pete Davidson and Kanye West spat
I don't know whether Kanye's new nickname for Davidson, "skete", should be mentioned in this article or not. There are a number of reliable sources for their spat: However, this article also has literally nothing to do with the slang term "skete". Despite this, I feel like a lot of people curious about this spat are going to go to the Wikipedia article for "skete" and expect something (myself included). Should something be mentioned in the disambiguation header or the talk page? --Kodiak Blackjack (talk) 04:12, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
 * https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/ye-music-video-depicting-pete-davidson-burial-met-backlash-concern-rcna18580
 * https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/kanye-west-pete-davidson-eazy-video-kim-kardashian.html
 * https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/kanye-west-eazy-video-backlash-reaction-pete-davidson-1235040138/


 * Hey, me from two years ago. (Christ, you write like a tool...)
 * I added it to the disambiguation header. If anybody wants to discuss that, drop a reply here. Kodiak Blackjack (talk) • (contribs) 03:37, 9 April 2024 (UTC)