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κατάσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάσκιος κατάσκιον

Structure: κατασκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skia/

Sense

  1. shaded or covered with
  2. overshadowing

Examples

  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ Μάριοσ, ἦσαν γάρ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ τῶν βαρβάρων νάπαι περικλινεῖσ καὶ κατάσκιοι δρυμοῖσ αὐλῶνεσ, ἐνταῦθα Κλαύδιον Μάρκελλον ἐκπέμπει μετὰ τρισχιλίων ὁπλιτῶν, ἐνεδρεῦσαι κελεύσασ κρύφα καὶ μαχομένοισ ἐξόπισθεν ἐπιφανῆναι. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 20 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. shaded or covered with

  2. overshadowing

Related

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

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