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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

  • ἔκδημοσ ὢν μὲν τῆσδ’ ἐτύγχανον χθονόσ, κλύω δὲ νεοχμὰ τήνδ’ ἀνὰ πτόλιν κακά, γυναῖκασ ἡμῖν δώματ’ ἐκλελοιπέναι πλασταῖσι βακχείαισιν, ἐν δὲ δασκίοισ ὄρεσι θοάζειν, τὸν νεωστὶ δαίμονα Διόνυσον, ὅστισ ἔστι, τιμώσασ χοροῖσ· (Euripides, episode 1:1)
  • βοτάνα τέ νιν πόθ’ ἁ λέοντοσ νικάσαντ’ ἤρεφε δασκίοισ Φλιοῦντοσ ὑπ’ ὠγυγίοισ ὄρεσιν. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 6 13:1)
  • οὐκ ἄν τισ οὕτω δασκίοισ ἐν οὔρεσιν ἀνὴρ λέοντ’ ἔδεισεν οὐδὲ πάρδαλιν μοῦνοσ στενυγρῇ συμπεσὼν ἐν ἀτραπῷ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 126)

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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