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ἐπισκύνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισκύνιον ἐπισκύνιου

Structure: ἐπισκυνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the skin of the brows
  2. superciliousness

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπισκύνιον ἐπισκυνίω ἐπισκύνια
Genitive ἐπισκυνίου ἐπισκυνίοιν ἐπισκυνίων
Dative ἐπισκυνίῳ ἐπισκυνίοιν ἐπισκυνίοις
Accusative ἐπισκύνιον ἐπισκυνίω ἐπισκύνια
Vocative ἐπισκύνιον ἐπισκυνίω ἐπισκύνια

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

  • ἔκτισασ αὐτάρκειαν, ἀφεὶσ κενεαυχέα πλοῦτον, Ζήνων, σὺν πολιῷ σεμνὸσ ἐπισκυνίῳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1171)
  • ἔκτισασ αὐτάρκειαν, ἀφεὶσ κενεαυχέα πλοῦτον, Ζήνων, σὺν πολιῷ σεμνὸσ ἐπισκυνίῳ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 30:2)

Synonyms

  1. the skin of the brows

Related

Similar forms

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

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