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δάσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δάσκιος

Structure: δασκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: da-, skia/

Sense

  1. thick-shaded, bushy

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἱμείρων δ’ ὑπ’ ἔρωτι καὶ ἣν οὐκ εἶδε διώκων, Δύσπαρισ ἀθροίσασ ἐπὶ δάσκιον ἤγαγεν ὕλην ἀνέρασ ἐργοπόνοιο δαήμονασ Ἀτρυτώνησ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1103)
  • ἄγχι δὲ ναιομένην ὑπὸ δάσκιον οὔρεοσ ὕλην γείτονα παπταίνων ἐρατὴν θηεῖτο Θεράπνην. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1111)
  • ἀλλὰ πολυπρέμνων ξυλόχων ὑπὸ δάσκιον ὕλην δένδρεα παπτήνασα καὶ αὐτῶν μέχρι πετήλων σὸν δέμασ οὐκ ἐνόησα· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1179)
  • τρισκαίδεκα μὲν τελέουσ μῆνασ κατὰ δάσκιον ἠλύκταζον ὕλαν φεῦγόν τε κατ’ Ἀρκαδίαν μηλοτρόφον· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 7:3)
  • Χρυσεὺσ Μάταλλοσ μυριόνταρχοσ θανών, ἵππου μελαίνησ ἡγεμὼν τρισμυρίασ, πυρρὰν ζαπληθῆ δάσκιον γενειάδα ἔτεγγ’, ἀμείβων χρῶτα πορφυρέᾳ βαφῇ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode13)

Synonyms

  1. thick-shaded

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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